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On the recordApril 24, 1851
I call upon every officer of this Government, civil or military, to use all efforts in his power to arrest for trial and punishment every such offender against the laws of the country.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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Proclamation 57—Warning to United States Citizens Against Participating in an Unlawful Invasion of Cuba

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I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, between the United States and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, signed at Montevideo on the 28th of August last.

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