Abraham Lincoln: “I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 1865

I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at the Isabella Indian Reservation, in the State of Michigan, on the 18th day of October, 1864, between H. J. Alvord, special commissioner, and D.C. Leach, United States Indian agent, acting as commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, in the State of Michigan, panics to the treaty of August 2, 1855, with amendments.

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Abraham Lincoln

Republican · Illinois

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Abraham Lincoln: “I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded at the Isabella Indian…”

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