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Millard Fillmore: “In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 16th ultimo, requesting information touching the difficulties between…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 1851
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 16th ultimo, requesting information touching the difficulties between the British authorities and San Salvador, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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