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On the recordJanuary 11, 1904
In response to the resolution of the Senate of December 19, 1903, requesting the President, 'if not incompatible with the public interests, to transmit to the Senate a list of any claims now pending in the Department of State by British subjects against the United States, or of citizens of the United States against Great Britain,' I transmit herewith a report from the Acting Secretary of State covering the list called for.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York
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