Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 10.djvu/1074

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1030 TREATY WITH THE CONV CREEK INDIANS. SEPT. 19, 1853. hereafter be considered by the United States as a proper policy to establish farms among and for the benefit of said Indians, it shall be discretionary with the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to change the annuities herein provided for, or any part hereof; into a fund for that purpose. Change article 7 to article 8: Do hereby accept and consent to the said amendment to the treaty aforesaid, and agree that the same shall be considered as a part thereofi In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and ailixed our seals, this 31st day of October, A. D. 1854. QUIN-TI-OO-SAN, or Bighead, his x mark, [L. s.] MY-N·E-LETTA, or Jackson, his x mark, [L. s.] TOM, his x mark, [L. s.] TAL-SA-PE-ER, his x mark, [L. s.] Executed in presence of Joni. PALMER, Super?. Jorm FLETT, W. STARR, J. B. Nicuons. Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of April twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, do accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty, with the amendment. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto atiixed, having signed the same with my hand. [L S ] Done at the city of Washington, this fifth day of February, `in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-five. FRANKLIN PIERCE. By the President: W. L. MARCY, Secretary of Btale.