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On the recordMarch 15, 1888
I have the honor to transmit herewith and recommend for your constitutional approval a convention signed and concluded in this city on the 12th instant, under my direction, between the United States and China, for the exclusion hereafter of Chinese laborers from coming into this country.
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Orestes Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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