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Martin Van Buren: “I transmit for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification a convention for the adjustment of claims…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 1839
I transmit for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification a convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States upon the Government of the Mexican Republic
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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