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Andrew Jackson: “I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, exhibiting certain transfers of appropriations that…”

On the recordDecember 7, 1835
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, exhibiting certain transfers of appropriations that have been made in that Department in pursuance of the power vested in the President by the act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1809, entitled 'An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments.'
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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