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TREATY WITH THE SHOSHONEE-GOSHIP INDIANS. OCT. 12, 1863. 683 seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, advise and consent to the ratification of the same by a resolution, with an amendment, in the words and Figures following, to wit: -— IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE or THE UNITED STATES, March 7, 1864. if RESOLVED, (two thirds of the senators present concurring,) That the Amendment. Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the “Treaty of peace and friendship, made at Tuilla Valley, in the Territory of Utah, this [the] twelfth day of October, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty- three, between the United States of America, represented by their commissioners, and the Shoshonee-Goship bands of Indians, represented by their chiefs, principal men, and warriors," with the following AMENDMENT. At the end of article 7, insert a new article, as follows: -— ARTICLE VIII. Nothing herein contained shall be construed or taken to admit any other or greater title or interest in the lands embraced within the territories described in said treaty in said tribes or bands of Indians than existed in them upon the acquisition of said territories from Mexico by the laws thereof Attest: J. W. Fomrnr, Secretary. And whereas the foregoing amendment having been fully interpreted Amendment and explained to Tabby, Adaseim, Tintsa-pa-gin, and Dick Moni, chiefs, “”“““°d t°· principal men, and warriors of the Shoshonee-Goship bands of Indians, they did, on the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, give their free and voluntary assent to the same, in the words and figures following, to wit : —— Whereas a treaty of peace and friendship was made and concluded at Tuilla Valley, in the Territory of Utah, on the 12th day of October, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, between the United States of America, represented by their Commissioner, James Duane Doty, and Brigadier-General P. Edward Connor, and the Shoshonee-Goship bands of Indians, represented by their chiefs, principal men, and warriors; which treaty was ratified by the Senate of the United States on the 7th day of March, 1864, with the following amendment : -.- “Article VIII. Nothing herein contained shall be construed or taken to admit any other or greater title or interest in the lands embraced within the territories described in said treaty in said tribes or bands of Indians than existed in them upon the acquisition of said territories from Mexico by the laws thereof: " Now, the said amendment having been, this 24th day of November, A._D. 1864, at a council held with the said chiefs, principal men, and warriors, at Tnilla Valley, under the instructions of the President of the United States, submitted to the said chiefs, principal men, and warriors, for their consideration and acceptance, and the same having been read, and fully interpreted to them in their own language, the said chiefs, and principal men, and warriors, for themselves and for the Shoshonee-Goship bands of i Indians, do hereby agree and consent to the said amendment to the said treaty; and do stipulate that the same shall be and hereby is accepted and adopted as one of the articles thereof, and forever binding upon them and their said nation. _ In witness whereof the said Commissioner and the Superintendent of Signatures. Indian Affairs in the Territory of Utah, on the part of the United States, and the said chiefs, principal men, and warriors, on the part of the Sho-