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On the recordFebruary 22, 1867
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded in the city of Washington on the 19th of February, 1867, between the United States and the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians of Missouri.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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