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• Franklin Pierce
Special Message
February 27, 1855

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:

I transmit to Congress herewith a communication of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, and recommend that the appropriation * therein asked for be made.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.

*For surveying public lands in the northern part of Minnesota Territory acquired from the Chippewa Indians.
Citation: Franklin Pierce: "Special Message", February 27, 1855. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67610.
 
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