Veto Message
07/01/1886
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Economy and the exaction of clear justification for the appropriation of public moneys by the servants of the people are not only virtues, b...
I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legislation proposed.
The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 900, entitled 'An act to provide for the payment of the claim of William H. Mahoney.'