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John Tyler: “The direction in the joint resolution, therefore, to pay the awards of the commissioners to the amount of $100,000…”

On the recordDecember 17, 1843
The direction in the joint resolution, therefore, to pay the awards of the commissioners to the amount of $100,000 seemed to me quite objectionable, and could not be approved.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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