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TREATY WITH THE DELAWARES. JULY 2, 1861. 1183 Office of Register of Deeds, County of Leavenworth, State of Kansas, ss. Qertificfate ogg I, W. S. Van Doren, Register of Deeds within and for the county afore- register 0 dw i said, do hereby certify that the within and foregoing instruments of writing were received by me for record this second day of July, A. D. 1861, at 3} o’clocl< p. m., and that the same are duly recorded in Book P, for recording mortgages, at page 230, &c. [SEAL'] ·In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and odicial seal of office, the day and year aforesaid. W. S. VAN DOREN, Register of Deeds. I, Archibald Williams, judge of the United States court for the district of Jugs of of Kansas, do hereby certify that I have carefully examined the within Dl“'“l°* °‘“'*· paper signed by the President of the United [States,] and have also examined and approved the bonds and mortgage offered by the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company in compliance with its provisions, and have accepted said bonds and mortgage, and receipted to said company for the same, as agent of the United States, and caused said mortgage to be duly recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds for Leavenworth county, Kansas. And I do further certify, that I have had before me the chiefs and headmen therein named, as John Connor,‘Sar-cox-ie, and Ne-con-he-con, and also James Connor, who was the delegate at large of said tribe, in making the treaty of 1860, and read to them the said paper signed by the President, and fully explained to them the nature and effect of the proposition set forth in said paper; and that, after they had fully discussed the proposition, John Connor, in English, and James Connor, Sarcox-ie, and Ne-con-he—con, through the said Johri Connor and other interpreters, declared that they understood it thoroughly, and each freely assented to the same; and that evidence has been presented to me by John Connor and other chiefs of said tribe, by which I am satisfied that Rock-a-to-wha died several months ago, and that no chief has been appointed in his place. Given under my hand at Leavenworth city, Kansas, this 2d day of July, 1861. ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS. And whereas the said treaty or agreement having been submitted to R·¤¢i6¤¤fi¤¤· the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the sixth of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, advise and consent to the ratification of the same by a resolution, and with amendments, in the words and figures following, to wit: “I1v Exncurxvn Session, “ SENATE or rua Umcrnn Srarns, August 6, 1861. " Resolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty or agreement between the United States of America and the Delaware tribe of Indians relative to certain lands of that tribe conveyed to the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Westei·n Railroad Company, and to bonds executed to. the United States by the said company for the payment- of the said Indians, done the second day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one : "Pr0vided, That the provisions of this treaty shall not be held to apply to any lands not heretofore surveyed and appraised and not included within the limits of said reserve, nor any lands included in any fort or reservation for military purposes: _ _ “Provided further, That if twenty-five miles of said railroad, from