In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of June last, requesting a list of claims of citizens of the United States on foreign governments, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with the documents which accompanied it.
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The amendment does not seem necessary to secure any right either of the United States or of any American citizen claiming under them.
Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.
In compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th and 18th February, 1858, requesting information upon the subject of the Aves Island, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents which accompanied it.
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