We do not need too many laws, too much legislation.
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Remarks in Waterville, Maine
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It is hereby ordered that two small islands of the Pribilof group, located approximately in latitude fifty-seven degrees north, longitude one hundred and seventy degrees west from Greenwich, be and same are hereby reserved.





