I'll take section 11, if I may. I find the writer's attitude comes through in his
intentional usage of italics.
I can also take section 32 (the next of the tables) off your hands. If you're ok with what I did for section 2 of the previous report, I can do something similar here.
As an example, I could read line items 23 and 24 as:
Tribe: Chickasaws, treaty of October 20, 1832. Land ceded to United States: six million, four hundred twenty-two thousand, four hundred. Amount paid: three million. Footnote: Estimated net proceeds, the whole amount of which they will receive.
Tribe: Same (Chickasaws), treaty of May 24, 1834. Amount paid: 46,000. Footnote: Annuity
And here's how I'd arrive at that, in addition to instructions you've posted:
- Skip the line/item numbers. There isn't heading for them, and this would match the format of the next table.
- After the first reading of the column headings, abbreviate as "tribe", "treaty of", "land ceded to United States", "land assigned to Indians", and "amount paid". For the "total" line at the end, don't abbreviate.
- When "Same" is used either as the tribe name or a footnote, read "Same", then repeat the previous name or note that it refers to.
- Read the footnotes at the end of the corresponding entry, as though it were a "Footnotes" column at the end. This matches the usage of a "Remarks" column in the next table.
- Read only numbers, rather than adding units. It's probably safe to say it's dollars and acres, again as in the next table, but I'd err on the side of caution unless you prefer I read them in.
