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On the recordMarch 14, 1838
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whom the resolution was referred, with the documents by which the said report was accompanied.
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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