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 TREATY WITH LIBERIA. OCTOBER 21, 1862. 1247 Done at London, the twenty-first day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, sun. STEPHEN ALLEN BENSON, Esau.] And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and Exchange of the respective ratilications of the same were exchanged at London, on the "ml°“°‘°“" tenth ultimo, by Charles Francis Adams, Esquire, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of St. James, and Gerard Ralston, Esquire, Consul-General and Commissioner for and on behalf of the Republic of Liberia, on the part of their respective governments: Now, therefore, be it known that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Presi- Pmchimed. dent 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 thereotl In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and causedthe seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and D" S'] sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: Wmnum H. Snwmm, Secretary of State.