Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas a treaty was made and concluded at the Pottawatomie Agency, on the Kansas River, in the State of Kansas, on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, between William W. Ross, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, braves and headmen of the Pottawatomie Nation of Indians, on the part of said nation ...