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TREATY WITH THE APACHES. JULY 1, 1852. 981 three, advise and consent to the ratification of its articles, by a resolution in the words and figures following, to wit: IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE or THE UNITED STATES, March 23d, 1853. Resolved, (two thirds of the Senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the Articles of a Treaty made and entered into at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the first day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1852, by and between Colonel E. V. Sumner, United States Army, commanding the 9th Department, and in charge of the Executive Office of New Mexico, and John Greiner, Indian Agent in and for the Territory of New Mexico, and acting Superintendent of Indian Affairs of said Territory, representing the United States, and Cuentas Azules, Blanoito, Negrito, Capitan Simon, Capitau Vuelta, and Mangus Colorado, chiefs, acting on the part of the Apache nation of Indians, situate and living within the limits of the United States. Attest-—— ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary. Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the twenty- third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and iit'ty-three, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be herewith affixed, having signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Wasliington, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L. s.] fifty-tliree, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-seventh. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY THE PRESIDENT: W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.