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962 TREATY WITH THE NEZ PERCES. JUNE 11, 1855. R¤*i$¤¤*i<>¤, And whereas the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the Mmm 8’1859' United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the eighth day of March, eighteen hundred and §fty-nine, advise and consent to the ratification of the same, by a resolution, in the words and figures following, to wit: · “IN Exscnrrvn Smssron, MSENATE or rim Uurrnn Srnns, March 8, 1859. "Res0Zvcd, (two thirds of the senators present concurring.) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of treaty between the United States and the chiefs, headmen and delegates of the Nez Percé tribe of Indians, occupying lands lying partly in Washington and partly in Oregon Territories, between the Cascade and Bitter Root Mountains, signed 11th day June, 1855. " Attest: “ASBURY DICKIN S, Secretary? prommmou, Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President A1>¤i129, 1859· of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate as expressed in their resolution of the eighth of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto athxed, and have signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty- [SEAL.] nine, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-third. JAMES BUCHANAN. By the President: Lewis Cass, Secretary of State.