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Andrew Johnson: I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon the following treaties, concluded at 'Medicine…

On the recordJanuary 13, 1868
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon the following treaties, concluded at 'Medicine Lodge Creek,' Kansas, between the Indian tribes therein named and the United States, by their commissioners appointed by the act of Congress approved July 20. 1867, entitled 'An act to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes.'
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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