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On the recordJanuary 9, 1881
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of the Senate, two treaties* signed at Peking on the 17th of November, 1880, by the commissioners plenipotentiary of the United States and China, respectively.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Republican · Ohio

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