EXECUTIVE MANSION,

_Washington, December, 1863_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon, a treaty

concluded at the Sac and Fox Agency, in Kansas, on the 3d day of

September, 1863, between William P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian

Affairs, and William G. Coffin, superintendent of Indian affairs for the

southern superintendency, on the part of the United States, and the

Creek Nation of Indians, represented by its chiefs.

A letter from the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 12th instant,

accompanies the treaty.

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