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ABBOTT acres affiant affidavit Agent Taylor avenues band of Shawnee bay horse Black Bob Black Bob's band bodies branch mint Brevet cemetery.-Inspected Charles Bluejacket Colonel colored soldiers Commissioner of Indian Congress County December December 22 district dollars duly sworn erected feet wide Georgia graves ground headboards heirs herewith hogs honor horse hundred inclosed Indian Affairs Indian Agent Interior interments number J. D. Cox Johnson County Kansas known lands letter mare mark members of Black miles N. G. TAYLOR obedient servant patents persons President quartermaster railroad received reservation respectfully River S. E. of sec Schooner SCHUYLER COLFAX Secretary selections Senate settlers severalty SHAWNEE AND WYANDOTT Shawnee Indians Shawnee tribe Sidney Clarke soldiers are unknown sorrel horse stolen subscribed superintendent thousand tion township 14 tribe United States Indian W. T. SHERMAN Washington white soldiers worth WYANDOTT AGENCY Wyandott Indian York
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Page 9 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 7 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 3 - ... the right to hunt on the unoccupied lands of the United States so long as game may be found thereon, and so long as peace subsists among the whites and Indians on the borders of the hunting districts.
Page x - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 9 - Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of the second section of the act of Congress, approved the 20th of April, 1818, entitled " An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 3 - THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR COMMUNICATING, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 15, 1870, information in relation to public lands in Louisiana.
Page 8 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of both Houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the united States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely : ARTICLE XV.
Page 3 - Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit...
Page 9 - Simouoscki, have agreed and determined upon the four articles following: 1. The amount payable to the four Powers is fixed at three millions of dollars. This sum to include all claims, of whatever nature, for past aggressions on the part of Nagato, whether indemnities, ransom for Simonoseki, or expenses entailed by the operations of the allied squadrons.
Page 4 - Smith, and their descendants, heretofore held in slavery among said nations, all the rights, privileges, and immunities, including the right of suffrage, of citizens of said nations, except in the annuities, moneys, and public domain...