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Rutherford B. Hayes: “In answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th instant, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1879
In answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of the 16th instant, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to forward to the House any facts or statistics in his office on the subject of forestry not heretofore reported, copies of the same, with accompanying papers, received from the Commissioner for this purpose, are herewith transmitted.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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