In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this day and year aforesaid at Lapwai, Nez Perce Reservation, the Territory of Washington.

EDWARD R. GEARY,

Superintendent Indian Affairs, Oregon and Washington.

A. J. CAIN,

U. S. Indian Agent, Washington Territory.

[Signed on the part of the Indians by Lawyer, head chief of the Nez Perce nation, and forty-nine chiefs and head men.]

ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACAIFIC, Numbers 5.
San Francisco, April 25, 1861.

In compliance with Special Orders, Numbers 86, dated War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, March 23, 1861, I hereby assume command of this department.

All concerned will govern themselves accordingly.

E. V. SUMNER,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, April 25, 1861.

Colonel GEORGE WHIGHT,

Ninth Infantry, Commanding District of Oregon, Fort Vancouver:

Brigadier-General Sumner, commanding the department, directs you to send the light battery of the Third Artillery, guns, horses, and men, by the first steamer to this place. Lieutenant-Colonel Swords will prepare transportation.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. W. MACKALL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 21.
Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., April 25, 1861.

Captain A. J. Smith, with his company (C), First Dragoons, will leave this post on Monday, the 29th instant, and proceed to establish himself on the Nez Perce Reservation at the most suitable point for carrying out the arrangement recently made by the Indians and Superintendent Geary, and also for enforcing the intercourse law. The company will be supplied with thirty days' rations and an ample supply of ammunition. The assistant quartermaster will furnish the necessary transportation.

By order of Major Steen:

JAMES WHEELER, Jr.,

Second Lieutenant, First Dragoons, Post Adjutant.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 64.
San Francisco, April 26, 1861.

The detachment of Sappers and Miners, under Lieutenant Casey, will proceed to Alcatraz Island to-day and be reported to the commanding