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 TREATY WITH THE WINNEBAGO INDIANS. MARCH 8, 1865. 673 and voluntary assent to said amendment in the words and figures following, to wit:- O I A N T MAHA NDIAN GENCY, EBRASKA ERRITORY, February 20, 1866. Mgggssadmcut Be it known that we, the chiefs of the Winnebago Tribe of Indians, in council assembled, being informed by Superintendent E. B. Taylor, through acting agent R. W. Furnas, that the treaty entered into by our chiefs and legal representatives, on our part, and the United States, by Commissioners, on its [their] part, in March, 1865, has been so amended as to provide for four hundred head of horses instead of sixty head, as originally stipulated, we hereby agree to said amendment, and consent to its being made a part of the original Treaty. In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals the day and year above written. LITTLE HILL, his x mark. SEAL.] GOOD HEART, his x mark. [SEAL.] GOOD THUNDER, his x mark. [SEAL.] THOMAS JEFFERSON, his x mark. [SEAL.] COO·NA-HUT-TA—KA, his x mark. [SEAL.] YOUNG FRENCH, his x mark. [SEAL.] OLD ROGUE, his x mark. [SEAL.] WHIRLING THUNDER, his x mark. [SEAL.] YOUNG PROPHET, his x mark. [sEAL.] LITTLE DECORA, his x mark. [SEAL.] BIG BEAR, his x mark. [SEAL.] Signed in presence of— R. W. FURNAS, U SC Ind. Ag’t. FRANK THEBALT, Interpreter. ALEx. PAYN, " IVIERSHALL Sr. SCYR, " ROBERT TEARE, Citizen. Proclaimed. Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the thirteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty-six, accept, ratify, and confirm the said Treaty with the amendment as aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-eighth day of 1\Iarch, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred [L. s.] and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. VOL. XIV. 43