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Thomas Jefferson: I lay before you the convention signed on the 12th day of May last between the United States and Great Britain for…

On the recordOctober 23, 1803
I lay before you the convention signed on the 12th day of May last between the United States and Great Britain for settling their boundaries in the northeastern and northwestern parts of the United States.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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