Seventh Annual Message
10/26/1807
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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.
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for t...
The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.
Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced...