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On the recordDecember 6, 1858
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and China, signed at Tien-tsin by the plenipotentiaries of the parties on the 18th day of June last.
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James Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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