Veto Message
06/21/1886
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I do not think there should be anything done with this valuable property which will in the least embarrass the Governmen...
The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.
The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4526, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jonathan Scott.'