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On the recordFebruary 22, 1867
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 19th February, 1867, between the United States and the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Indians.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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