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On the recordDecember 3, 1832
If those which are clearly granted shall be found incompetent to the ends of its creation, it can at any time apply for their enlargement; and there is no probability that such an application, if founded on the public interest, will ever be refused.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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