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 PRESIDENT OF THE U. S., 
 
 GEN. HENRY H. SIBLEY OF MINNESOTA, 
 
 Ordering^ him to execute 39 of the 303 Indian murderers, found guilty by a military commission, of 
 massacring white oeople in the outbreak of 1862, and condemned to be hung. 
 
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