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James Monroe: “I transmit to the Senate, for its advice and consent as to the ratification, three treaties which have been concluded in…”

On the recordDecember 30, 1819
I transmit to the Senate, for its advice and consent as to the ratification, three treaties which have been concluded in the course of the present year with the Kickapoos, the Chippaways, and the Kickapoos of the Vermillion by commissioners who were duly authorized for the purpose.
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James Monroe
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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