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On the recordApril 2, 1840
copies of the arrangement entered into between the governor of Maine and Sir John Harvey, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, through the mediation of Major-General Scott, in the month of March last (1839),
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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