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On the recordMarch 12, 1867
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty concluded on the 2d March, 1866, between the United States and the Shawnee tribe of Indians of Kansas.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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