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TREATY WITII THE O GALLALA INDIANS. OCTOBER. 28 1865. 749 7 And whereas the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of _Rntitlcat.io¤ the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on ;2;‘tf’·“‘°“d' the Hlth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, advise and consent to the ratification of the same, with an amendment, by a resolution in the words and figures following, to wit: — IN Exnonrrva Session, Saturn or urns Unrrnn STATES, March 5, 1866. 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 headmen of the O’Gallala band of Dacotuh [Dakota] or Sioux Indians, made and concluded at Fort Sully, in the Territory of Dakota, with the following AMENDMENT: Article IV., lines 3, 4, and 5, strike out the following words, viz: " and S93 AHM, p- 748· of their non-interference with the persons and property of citizens of the United States travelling thereon." Attest: J. `W. FORNEY, Sccretaryx And whereas article sixth of said treaty provides that any amendment or modification of it by the Senate of the United States shall be considered final and binding upon the said band of Indians, represented in council, as a art of the treat , in the same manner as if it had been sub- P Y . . sequenlly presented and agreed to by the chiefs and headmen of said band : -— Now, therefore, be it known that I ANDREW J OHNSON, President of Pmclaimod. . . ’ . the United Sta-tes of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty with the amendment as aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto ahixed. Done at the city of Wasliitigton this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [sean.:] sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth. · ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: Wu.1.1AM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.