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C.K. Smith Esq, the secretary of the Territory & the Governor received me with such kindness & I received a diploma of my election as a member of the Minnesota Historical Society soon after my former connexion with the Md Hist'l Society was known. I found the Governor Ramsey giving audience to a deputation of Sioux Indians who had come from [[unclear: "Six's" village on the St. Peter river to ask supplies of food for their children & families whom they represented to be in a starving condition. Placed by his side with the Indians seated around with their pipes