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On the recordMay 5, 1830
I am fully aware that in thus resorting to the early practice of the Government, by asking the previous advice of the Senate in the discharge of this portion of my duties, I am departing from a long and for many years an unbroken usage in similar cases.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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