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James Buchanan: “I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims…”

On the recordDecember 4, 1860
I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to ratification, a convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica, signed by the plenipotentiaries of the contracting parties at San Jose on the 2d day of July last.
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James Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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