In transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the grades and corps to which they had respectively belonged in the former, so far as it might be practicable.
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On the perusal of the document called for I find that it communicates a difference of opinion between Mr. Russell and a majority of his colleagues in certain transactions which occurred in the negotiations at Ghent.
To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.
I transmit to the Senate, for the exercise of its constitutional power, a treaty lately concluded at the Indian Springs.
I communicate to them herewith copies of the communications received from the Norwegian Government in relation to the subject, and recommend the same to their consideration.
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