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 722 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. MARCH 19, 1867. In presence of --, T. A. WARREN, ZZ S Intetptr. Cnsnrns E. Mrx. Lnwrs S. HAYDEN. Gnonem B. JONAS. Tn0s. E. MCGRAW· Jour: JOHNSON. Gnoncn BONGA. Retificd with And whereas, the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of °m°“dm°“t° the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, advise and consent to the ratification of the same, with an amendment, by a resolution in the words and iigures following, to wit: IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE or rms UNrrEn Sruns, April 8, 1867. Resolved (two thirds of the Senators present concurring), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty concluded March 19, 1867, between the United States and the Chippewa tribe of Indians of the Mississippi, with the following AMENDMENT: Strike out in Article IV. of the treaty the following words: “ And the United States agree that any scrip which has been or may hereafter be issued to any halfibreed or mixed-blood, in pursuance of Ame, p. 720. article seven of the supplementary treaty with the Red Lake and Pem— bina bands of Chippewas, ratified April 25, 1864, may be located upon any land, not mineral lands, belonging to the United States, which may have been surveyed and is open to settlement." `Attest: J. W. FORNEY, Secretary, by W. J. MGDONALD, C/clef Clerk. Amgudmgnt And whereas the foregoing amendment having been fully explained ¤¤¤°¤*¤d $0- and interpreted to the aforesaid chiefs and headmen of the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi, they did, on the eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in behalf of said Indians, give their free and voluntary assent to the said amendment, in the words and figures following, to wit: And whereas a treaty concluded on the nineteenth day of March, A. D. 1867, between the United States and the Chippewas tribe of Indians of the Mississippi, has been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action; and whereas we have been informed that the Senate of the United States has amended the same by striking out the last clause of article four of said treaty, being the words following, to wit: "And the United States agree that any scrip which has been or may hereafter be issued to any half-breed or mixed·blood in pursuance of article seven of the supplementary treaty with the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewas, ratified April 25, 1864, may be located upon any lands, not mineral lands, belonging to the United States, which may have been surveyed and is open to settlement? And whereas the foregoing ammendment has been fully interpreted and explained to the undersigned: We do hereby freely and voluntarily assent to said amendment.