I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention between the United States and Belgium for regulating the commerce and navigation between the two countries, signed in this city on the 17th of July last.
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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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