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Grover Cleveland: “The measure under consideration does not with sufficient care specify and limit the officers and the parties who it is…”

On the recordApril 25, 1886
The measure under consideration does not with sufficient care specify and limit the officers and the parties who it is proposed to invest with discretion in the disposition of dead bodies.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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