Executive Order—Special Orders: 503
09/18/1865
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The advice and consent of the Senate to the transfer, upon the terms proposed in the draft of a convention with the Domi...
I transmit herewith a report from the Attorney-General
It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.
As stated in the preamble to the resolution, the bill to which it refers was presented for my approval on the 11th day o...