Special Message
04/05/1822
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To the House of Representatives: I communicate to the House of Representatives copies of sundry papers having relation t...
I now transmit a report from the Secretary or State, containing the information embraced by that resolution.
I am aware that many officers of great merit, having the strongest claims on their country, have been reduced and others...
It is on the authority of these examples, supported by the construction which I gave to the law, that I have acted in th...