ANDREW JOHNSON.

WASHINGTON CITY, _March 13, 1867_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon,

a treaty this day concluded between the United States and the Cherokee

Nation of Indians, providing for the sale of their lands in Kansas,

known as the "Cherokee neutral lands."

A letter of the Secretary of the Interior and accompanying copy of a

letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of this date, in relation

to the treaty, are also herewith transmitted.

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