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Millard Fillmore: “In the United States of America citizens of Switzerland shall be received and treated in each State upon the same…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 1851
In the United States of America citizens of Switzerland shall be received and treated in each State upon the same footing and upon the same conditions as citizens of the United States born in or belonging to other States of the Union.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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