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John Tyler: “I have great pleasure in submitting to the Senate, for its ratification and approval, a treaty which has been concluded…”

On the recordDecember 9, 1844
I have great pleasure in submitting to the Senate, for its ratification and approval, a treaty which has been concluded between Mr. Cushing, the United States commissioner, and the Chinese Empire.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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