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Martin Van Buren: “A complete stop has been put to those operations in consequence of the island having been taken possession of by the…”

On the recordDecember 25, 1838
A complete stop has been put to those operations in consequence of the island having been taken possession of by the individual claimant under the decision, in his favor, of the United States district court for the district of New Jersey.
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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