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TREATY WITH THE CROW INDIANS.

MAY 7, 1868. 653

CHE-RA-PEE-ISH-KA-TE, Pretty Bull his x mark, [SEAL.]
CHAT-STA-HE, Wolf Bow, his x mark, [SEAL.]
AH-BE-CHE-SE, Mountain Tail, his x mark, [SEAL.]
KAM-NE-BUT-SA, Black Foot, his x mark, [SEAL.]
DE-SAL-ZE-CHO-SE, White Horse, his x mark, [SEAL.]
CHIN-KA-SHE-ARACHE, Poor Elk, his x mark, [SEAL.]
E-SA-WOOR, Shot in the Jaw, his x mark, [SEAL.]
E-SHA-CHOSE, White Forehead, his x mark, [SEAL.]
---- ROO-KA, Pounded Meat, his x mark, [SEAL.]
DE-KA-KE-UP-SE, Bird in the Neck, his x mark, [SEAL.]
ME-NA-CHE, The Swan, his x mark [SEAL.]

Attest:

GEORGE B. WILLIS, Phonographer.
JOHN D. HOWLAND.
ALEX. GARDNER.
DAVID KNOX.
CHAS. FREEMAN.
JAS. C. O’CONNOR.

Ratification.

And whereas the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, advise and consent to the ratification of the same, by a resolution in the words and figures following, to wit:

IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, July 25, 1868.

Resolved, (two thirds of the senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty between the United States and the Crow Indians of Montana Territory, made the seventh day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Attest:

GEO. C. GEORHAM, Secretary.
By W. J. McDONALD, Chief Clerk.

Proclamation.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the twenty-fifth of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-third. [SEAL.]

ANDREW JOHNSON.

By the President:

W. HUNTER,

Acting Secretary of State.