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TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. MAY 8, 1871. 877 Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, and Earl Granville, her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State {br Foreign Affairs, on the part of their respective governments: Now, therefore, be it known that I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof, In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aflixed. Done 'at the City of Washington this fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and of [SEAL'] the Independence of the United States the ninety-sixth. U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hamuxrou Frsu, Secretary of State.