Special Message
12/05/1805
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Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
These decrees and orders, taken together, want little of amounting to a declaration that every neutral vessel found on t...
It would have been a source, fellow citizens, of much gratification if our last communications from Europe had enabled m...