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On the recordMarch 20, 1867
A letter of the Secretary of the Interior and a copy of a letter of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, special commissioner, of the 20th instant, explanatory of the said treaty, are also herewith transmitted.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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