James Buchanan, 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 on the Qui-nai-elt river, in the Territory of Washington, on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and at the City of Olympia also in said Territory, on the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, between Isaac I. Stevens, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairsin the Territory aforesaid, on the part of the United States, and the hereinafter named chiefs, headmen and delegates of the different tribes and bands of the Qui-nai-elt and Quil-leh-ute Indians, on the part of said tribes and bands ...

by Isaac Ingalls Stevens