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On the recordJanuary 9, 1839
I communicate to the House of Representatives, in compliance with its resolution of the 3d instant, reports from the Secretaries of State and War, containing all the information called for by said resolution now in possession of the Executive.
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Martin Van Buren
Democratic · New York

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