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Excerpt from The Machinery of Federal Regulation of Commerce: Thesis
The second of the executive departments was established August 7, 1789, eleven days after the creation of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Its chief commercial function is the improvement of rivers and harbors, and the magnitude of its operations in this work will appear in the consideration of that subject in Chapter XL.
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