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Grover Cleveland: “To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication of 4th instant from the Secretary of the…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 1888
To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication of 4th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with other papers, a draft of a bill to accept and ratify an agreement made with the Shoshone and Bannock Indians for the surrender and relinquishment to the United States of a portion of the Fort Hall Reservation.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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