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• Franklin Pierce
Special Message
December 12, 1853

To the Senate of the United States:

In answer to the resolutions of the Senate of the 17th of August, 1852, and 23d of February last, requesting a copy of correspondence relative to the claim on the Government of Portugal in the case of the brig General Armstrong , I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, to whose Department the resolutions were referred.

FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Citation: Franklin Pierce: "Special Message", December 12, 1853. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=67832.
 
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