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 646 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. FEBRUARY 17, 1863. S;g,mim~_.,_ Done at Washington, the 17th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. [L. s.] LYONS. [1.. s.] R¤*i6¢¤fi<>¤< And whereas the said additional article has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratitications of the same were exchanged at _ London on the 1st instant, by Charles Francis Adams, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, at the Court of St. James, and Earl Russell, her Britannia: Majesty’s principal Secretary of State for foreign affairs, on the part of their respective governments: Proclamation Now, therefore, be it known, that I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Presby the P'°S‘d°“*‘ ident of the United States of America, have caused the said additional article to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and part thereof, may be observed and fullilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereotl In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-second day of [L S] April, 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: WILLIAM H. Snwann, Secretmy of State.