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On the recordDecember 14, 1863
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th of March last, requesting certain information touching persons in the service of this Government, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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