Special Message
01/10/1897
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I do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public res...
I do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act of August 19, 1890, and by section 2 of the...
The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.
Such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certificat...