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On the recordAugust 17, 1842
But there are circumstances existing in this case which have been thought to justify a departure from the general rule, and the addition of it to the number of instances, not large, in which regulations of duties of imports have been made the subject of national compact.
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David Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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