Fourth Annual Message
11/07/1804
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I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil o...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.
It can not but be encouraging to those whom the nation has placed in the direction of their affairs to see that their fe...