Executive Order
02/03/1879
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed
I am directed by the President to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Saturday, the 29t...
The necessity for these appropriations is so urgent and they have been already so long delayed that if the bill before m...
I respectfully ask the immediate and careful attention of Congress