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The Department of the Interior is charged, under the direction of the President, with the execution of the 11th section of the act
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The Department of the Interior is charged, under the direction of the President, with the execution of the 11th section of the act
for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia, approved April 16, 1862; and that portion of section 1 of the act making supplemental appropriations for sundry civil expenses; approved July 16, 1862, which appropriates $500,-000 for the colonization of certain persons of African descent.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
[1] Thirty-ninth Congress, First Session, Senate Executive Document No. 55, p. 12. See Lincoln's Approval of Contract, September 11, supra.