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 city of Washington in the District of Columbia, on the eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, by and between William P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Clark W. Thompson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Northern Superintendency, on the part of the United States, and Henry M. Rice, of Minnesota, and the hereinafter named chiefs and headmen, for and on behalf of the Chippewas of the Mississippi and the Pillager and Lake Winibigoshish Bands of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota ...