Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 13.djvu/681

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TBEATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. JULY 1, 1863. 653 And whereas the said treaty has been dnly ratified on both parts, and g€°b?¤S¤ of the respective ratiiications of the same were exchanged at Washington, m °°u°"' on the second instant, by William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, and the Right Honorable Lord Lyons, her Britannica Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, on the part of their respective governments : Now, therefore, be it known that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Presi- proclaimed by dent of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be the P1‘¤¤id¢¤¢· 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 thereoi In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L. s.] sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: Wxnruu H. Snwnm, Secretary of State. 55 *