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On the recordDecember 30, 1861
I also transmit a letter, dated the 4th instant, from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a copy of a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 20th September, 1861, in relation to the subject.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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