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James Buchanan: “Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 1861
Neither the Government nor the citizens in whose behalf the convention has been concluded have any further claims upon the island of Aves.
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James Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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