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[721]. Hedgman v. Bd. of Registration, 1872, 26 Mich. 51.
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[723]. 31 Stat. L., 82–83, chap. 191; Sixty-first Cong., 2d sess., H. Doc. No. 615; Congressional Record, vol. 45, p. 1199.
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