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Previous page ||  Last Page Attest: Geo W. G. Getty, Col. 37th Inf'y, Bt. Maj. Gen'l U.S.A. B.S. Roberts, Bt. Brg. Gen'l U.S.A., Lt. Col. 3rd Cav'y. J. Cooper McKee, Bt. Lt. Col. Surgeon U.S.A. Theo H. Dodd, U.S. Indian Ag't for Navajos. Chas. McClure, Bt. Maj. and C.S.U.S.A. James F. Weeds, Bt. Maj. and Asst. Surg. U.S.A. J. C. Sutherland, Interpreter. William Vaux, Chaplain U.S.A. And whereas, the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action hereon, the senate did, on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, advise and consent to the ratification of the same, by a resolution in the words and figures, following to wit:

In Executive Session, Senate of the United States, July 25, 1868.

Resolved, (two-thirds of the senators present concurring) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty between the United States and the Navajo Indians, concluded at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on the first day of June, 1868.

Attest: GEO C. GORMAN, Secretary, By W.J. McDONALD, Chief Clerk.

Now, therefore, be it know 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 twenty-fifth of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty.

In testimony, whereof, I have hereto signed my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-third.

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