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630 TREATY WITH THE KICKAPOO INDIANS. JUNE 28, 1862. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifth day of May, A. D. 1863. CHIEF PAR-THEE, or the Elk, his x mark. [slut.] CHIEF PAH-KAH-KAH, or John Kennekuk, his x mark. [SEAL.] CHIEF MACK-A—'I`AIR-CHEE-QUA, or Black Thunder, his x mark. [san.,] PET-TI-QUAUK, or Rolling Thunder, his x mark. {SEAL.] KEN-NE-KUK, or Stephen Pen-sion-eau, his x mark. [sun,.] MAH-MAH-SHE-COW-AH, or Bear Track, her x mark. [SEAL. JOHN C. ANDERSON, [san. Executed in presence of --- Jomr E. Bnnenn. N. S. Summa. W1LL1AM Fosrmc. Pnscnau. Pnnsiomnn, his x mark. ZZ SC Interpreter. H. C. PURSEL, witness to signature of Paschall Pensianeau. I hereby certify that the foregoing treaty between the United States and the Kickapoo Tribe of Indians, concluded on the 28th day of June, 1862, together with the foregoing amendments thereto made by the Senate of the United States on the 13th day of March, 1863, were read and fully explained by me to said Indians through Paschall Pensioneau, the United States Interpreter, and that the chiefs, headmen, and delegates above named, on behalf of said tribe, this day in council assembled; did freely accept and consent to said- treaty, together with said amendments, and subscribe their names and aliixed their seals thereto in my presence. Given under my hand this 5th day of May, A. D. 1863. CHARLES B. KEITH, UZ S. Indian Agent. P¤‘¤¤!¤}m¢d by Now, therefore, be it known that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President 3; gfagnt °f of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent States. of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the thirteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, accept, ratify, and confirm said treaty, with the amendment as aforesaid. 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 twenty-eighth day of May, [L S] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ' ‘ sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary of State.