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On the recordFebruary 6, 1794
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:I transmit to you an act and three ordinances passed by the government of the territory of the United States south of the river Ohio on the 13th and 21st of March and the 7th of May, 1793, and also certain letters from the minister plenipotentiary of the French Republic to the Secretary of State, inclosing dispatches from the general and extraordinary commission of Guadaloupe.
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George Washington
Independent · Virginia

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