Ulysses S. Grant, 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 Ruby Valley, in the Territory of Nevada, on the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, by and between James W. Nye and James Duane Doty, commissioners on the part of the United States, and Te-moak, Mo-ho-a, Kirk-weedgwa, To-nag, and other chiefs, principal men and warriors of the Western Bands of the Shoshonee Nation of Indians, on the part of said bands of Indians ..