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Andrew Jackson: “I communicate to Congress copies of a convention between the United States and His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of…”

On the recordMay 12, 1834
I communicate to Congress copies of a convention between the United States and His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, to terminate the reclamations of the former for the depredations inflicted upon American commerce by Murat during the years 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812, concluded at Naples on the 14th of October, 1832, and the ratifications of which were exchanged at the same place on the 8th of June, 1833.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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