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 782'PREATY WITlI THE CI{OCTAWS AND CHICKASAWS. APRIL 28, 1866. the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, advise and consent to the ratification of the same, by a resolution, with amendments, in the words and figures following, to wit : -— IN Exscurrvn SESSION, SENATE or run Umrsn Sums, June 28, 1866. Resolved, (two thirds of the senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of agreement and convention between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians, made and concluded at the city of Washington, the twenty-eighth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty- six, by Dennis N. Cooley, Elhah Sells, and E. S. Parker, special commissioners on the part of the United States, and Alfred Wade, Allen Wright, James Riley, and John Page, commissioners on the part of the Choctaws, and Winchester Colbert, Edmund Pickens, Holmes Colbert, Colbert Carter., and Robert H. Love, commissioners on the part of the Chickasaws, with the following Amendments. AMENDMENTS : Aw, p. 770. lst. At the end of article V. add the following: -—- The people of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations stipulate and agree to deliver up to any duly authorized agent of the United States all public property in their possession which belong[s] to the late so-called " confederate states of America " or the United States, without any reservation wha[t]- soever, particularly ordnance, ordnance stores, and arms of all kinds. Ame, p. 774. 2d. Article IX. lines 4 and 5, strike out the words “ including any arrears which may have accrued." Am, p. 779. 3d. Article XXXIX. lines l, 2, and 3, strike out the following: “Be licensed to trade with the Choctaws or Chickasaws, except by the agent, with the advice and consent," and insert in lieu thereof: No person shall expose goods or other articles for sale as a trader without a permit. Ame, p. 779. 4th. Strike out Article XLII. and insert in lieu thereof the following as a substitute: '1`he Choctaw and Chickasaw nations shall deliver up persons accused of crime against the United States, who may be found within their respective limits on the requisition of the governor of any State for a crime committed against the laws of said State, and upon the requisition of the judge of the district court of the United States for the district within which the crime was committed. Am, p. 780. 5th. Article XLVI. line 13, strike out the words " not less tban." Ante, p. 780. 6th. Article XLIX. line 3, after the words “United States " insert: not exceeding three. Am, p. 781. 7th. Article [L]. lines 11 to and including line 15, strike out the following words: " that the President of the United States shall, within three months from the ratification of this treaty, appoint a commission, to consist of one or more discreet persons," and insert in lieu thereof': that the commission provided for in the proceeding [preceding] article shall. Attest: J. W. FORNEY, Secretary. Amendments And whereas the foregoing amendments having been fully explained "“°"“d °°· and interpreted to the respective commissioners of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians hereinbefore named, they did, on the second day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, givc their free and voluntary assent to said amendments, in the words and figures following, to wit:-- Whereas the Senate of the United States did, on the twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty- six, advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of agreement and