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Millard Fillmore: “I herewith transmit a letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a report of a board of officers to which, in…”

On the recordDecember 16, 1850
I herewith transmit a letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a report of a board of officers to which, in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate passed on the 30th of September last, were submitted the questions proposed therein, relative to the expediency and necessity of creating additional grades of commissioned officers in the Army and of enacting provisions authorizing officers of the Army to exercise civil functions in emergencies to be enumerated and restraining them from usurping the powers of civil functionaries.
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Millard Fillmore
Whig · New York

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