If the embarrassments of Spain prevented her from making an indemnity to our citizens for so long a time from her treasury for their losses by spoliation and otherwise, it was always in her power to have provided it by the cession of this territory.
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The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.
To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late act, the force in service, the several corps of which it was composed, and the grades and number of officers commanding it.
I transmit herewith to the House a report from the Secretary of State with copies of the correspondence relating to the claims of the citizens of the United States upon the Government of the Netherlands, requested by a resolution of the House of the 18th of January last.
Certain matters touching the public good requiring that the Senate of the United States should be convened on Friday, the 4th day of March next
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