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| Title | Debates in Congress, Volume 2; Volume 11, Part 2 Volume 11, Part 2 of Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole, United States. Congress |
| Author | United States. Congress |
| Publisher | Gales & Seaton, 1835 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 15, 2007 |
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