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Martin Van Buren: I lay before the Senate a report ** of the postmaster-General, in further compliance with a resolution of the Senate of…

On the recordApril 26, 1840
I lay before the Senate a report ** of the postmaster-General, in further compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839.
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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