Special Message
04/16/1860
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My province is to execute and not to make the laws.
Under its shadow American citizens have found protection and respect in all lands beneath the sun.
It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct.
The increase of the sum appropriated in the present bill over that in the bill of the last session, being within a fract...