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Amended

by

M. L. MARTIN,

ALBERT G. ELLIS.

And whereas the said treaty having been submitted to the Senate of the United States for its constitutional action thereon, the Senate did, on the 1st day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, resolve as follows:

the Senate, Mar. IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, 1st, 1849.

March 1st, 1849.

Resolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring,) That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of agreement and treaty made and concluded at Stockbridge, in the State of Wisconsin, on the 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1848, by and between Morgan L. Martin and Albert G. Ellis, commissioners on the part of the United States of America, and the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, with the following

AMENDMENT.

Add the following as supplemental articles:

Whereas the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians consider that they have a claim against the United States for, indemnity for certain lands on White river in the State of Indiana, and for certain other lands in the State of Wisconsin, which they allege they have been deprived of by treaties entered into with the Miamies and Delawares, or to the lands claimed by them in Indiana, and with the Menomonees and Winnebagoes, or to the

lands in Wisconsin, without their consent; and whereas the said Stockbridge and Munsee Indians, by their chiefs and agents, have continued to prosecute their said claims during the last twenty years at their own expense, except the sum of three thousand dollars paid them in 1821; and whereas it is desirable that all ground of discontent on the part of said Indians shall be removed, the United States do further stipulate, in consideration of the relinquishment by them of said claims, and all others, except as provided in this treaty, to pay to the sachems or chiefs of said Indians, on the ratification of this article by them, with the assent of their people, the sum of five thousand dollars, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be paid in ten annual instalments, to commence when the said Indians shall have selected and removed to their new homes, as contemplated by the seventh article of this treaty.

The President of the United States, within two years from the ratification of this treaty, shall procure for the use of said Stockbridge Indians a quantity of land west of the Mississippi river, upon which they shall reside, not less than seventy-two sections, said Indians to be consulted as to the location of said land, and to be holden by the same tenure as other Indian lands.

1849.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, JAMES K. POLK, 2, 14. President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the first day of March, eighteen hundred and fortynine, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty, with the amendment set forth in the said resolution.

In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand.

Done at the city of Washington, the second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred [L. s.] and forty-nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the seventy-third.

By the President :

JAMES K. POLK.

JAMES BUCHANAN, Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by an act of the Congress of the United States of Preamble. the tenth January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act to extend certain privileges to the town of Whitehall, in the State of New York," the President of the United States, on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to extend to the town of Whitehall the same privileges as are conferred on certain ports named in the seventh

Privileges of

tended to port of

section of an act entitled "An act allowing drawback upon foreign merchandise exported in the original packages to Chihuahua and Santa Fe, in Mexico, and to the British North American provinces adjoining the United States," passed third March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, in the manner prescribed by the proviso contained in said section.

And whereas the Secretary of the Treasury has duly recommended to me the extension of the privileges of the law afore said to the port of Whitehall, in the collection district of Cham plain, in the State of New York:

Now, therefore, I, JAMES K. POLK, President of the drawback ex United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim tha Whitehall, N. Y. the port of Whitehall, in the collection district of Champlain, in the State of New York, is and shall be entitled to all the privileges extended to the other ports enumerated in the seventh section of the act aforesaid, from and after the date of this proclamation.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred [L. s.] and forty-nine, and of the independence of the United States of America the seventy-third.

By the President:

JAMES K. POLK.

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INDEX

TO THE ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS, AND TO THE APPENDIX THERETO.

A.

Academy, Military. (See Military Academy.)

Adjutant General's office, appropriation for temporary clerks in
Agricultural statistics, appropriation for collection of

Alabama, payment of interest on advances made by, provided

for

three years allowed to, to make selections of lands
authorized by previous acts

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Aldrich, Polly, grant of pension to

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to carry into execution in part the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo with Mexico

for navy pensions

for civil and diplomatic expenses of Government, (see

appropriate heads)

for support of the army

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for Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipula-
tions with the various Indian tribes -

Arkansas, act to settle the titles to certain tracts of land in

Arkansas and other volunteers who were prisoners in Mexico, allowance of subsistence to

Army of the United States:

re-appropriation for sappers, miners, and pontoniers of
Pay Departinent of, reorganized

increase of the medical staff and additional chaplains of,

authorized

appointment of judge advocate for, authorized
act making appropriations for support of

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