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'I`R.EATY WITH THE OTTOES AND MISSOURIAS. Disc. 9, 1854. 1131 rias, have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the place and on the day and year above written. GEORGE HEPNER, [sEAL.] United States Indian Agent. HICK KAPOO, his x mark, [sEAL. BIL SOLDIER, his x mark, [SEAL. CHI-AN-A-KA, or BUFFALO CHIEF, his x mark, [SEAL. MISSOURI CHIEF, his x mark, [SEAL. WVHITE WATER, his x mark, [SEAL.] Executed in presence cf—- Lnwis BERNAMJ, his x mark. U S. Interpreter. H. P. DowNs, Jomz BAULWARE. And whereas the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its eonstitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-- five, advise and consent to the ratification of" the same, by a resolutionini the words and ngures following, to wit: -·— " IN ExEoUr1vE SESSION, SENATE or THE UNITED Srnrms, "February 28, 1855. "Res0Zved, (two thirds of the senators present concurring,) That the C0 tot. Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the article of agreement S,,,,,,$°° and convention made and concluded at Nebraska City, in the Territory of Nebraska, on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between the United States of America, by George Hepner, United States Indian agent, duly authorized thereto, and the chiefs and headmen of the confederate tribes of the Ottoe and Missouria Indians, to be taken and considered as a supplement to the treaty made between the United States and said confederate tribes, on the fifteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. "Attest: ASBURY DICKINS, "Secrctary." 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- eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed, having signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, this tenth day of April, in the [I" S'] year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and of the independence of the United States the seventy- ninth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. By the President: W. L. Milner, Secretary of State.