Franklin Pierce, 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 the eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by George W. Manypenny, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named delegates of the Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, viz: Pe-to-o-ke-mah or Hard Fish, Mo-less or Wah-pe-nem-mah or Sturgeon, Ne-son-quoit or Bear, Mo-ko-ho-ko or Jumping Fish, and No-ko-what or Fox, they being thereto duly authorized by the said Sac and Fox Indians ..