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• Franklin Pierce
Special Message
December 27, 1855

To the Senate of the United States:

I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, signed in Washington the 20th day of July, A. D 1855.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Citation: Franklin Pierce: "Special Message", December 27, 1855. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67630.
 
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