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Grover Cleveland: “Transfers may be made from one classified post-office to another, from any classified post-office to the classified…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1889
Transfers may be made from one classified post-office to another, from any classified post-office to the classified railway mail service, and from the classified railway mail service to any classified post-office.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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