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On the recordDecember 8, 1880
To the Senate of the United States:I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention for the establishment, on fixed and uniform bases, of the exercise of the right of protection in Morocco, and for the settlement of certain questions connected therewith.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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