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On the recordJanuary 20, 1859
I herewith transmit to the Senate a digest of the statistics of manufactures according to the returns of the Seventh Census, prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with a provision in the first section of an act of Congress approved June 12, 1858.
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James Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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