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On the recordMarch 8, 1830
I submit to the consideration of Congress a letter of the governor of Virginia, transmitting two acts of the general assembly of that State, respecting the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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