Special Message
03/28/1808
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This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself.
they prove more and more the expediency of retaining our vessels, our seamen, and property within our own harbors until ...
I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1...
The precise extent of that augmentation can not as yet be satisfactorily suggested, but that no time may be lost, and es...