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On the recordJanuary 23, 1853
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, relative to the award of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, of France, in the case of the brig General Armstrong, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents by which it was accompanied.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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