Veto Message
08/08/1842
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The urgent demands of the service for the Gulf of Mexico and the substitution of iron for wood in the construction of sh...
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of War, prepared in compliance with a resolution of the House of Represent...
That action having since taken place, it is communicated with the papers.
The restrictions laid upon the power to transfer by the latter clauses of the act have rendered its passage of no avail ...