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On the recordJanuary 2, 1862
I transmit to the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 15th November, 1861, between William W. Ross, agent on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the tribe of Pottawatomie Indians.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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