The President's News Conference
12/05/1929
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Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.
These are our objectives and with unceasing effort, with courage and faith in Almighty God, they will be attained.
No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.
Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on th...