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Executive Order

August 06, 1831

ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR.

SIR: You will, after the receipt of this, report to the President for dismissal every clerk in your office who shall avail himself of the benefit of the insolvent debtors act for debts contracted during my Administration.

Very respectfully,

ANDREW JACKSON.

(The same order was addressed to the Secretary of the Navy.)

Andrew Jackson, Executive Order Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201786

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