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On the recordJune 14, 1880
This bill does not connect the new officers with the existing laws relating to special deputy marshals so as to invest the proposed deputy marshals with the same powers, to impose upon them the same duties, and to give them the same protection by means of the criminal laws.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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