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On the recordDecember 10, 1805
If from this sum we deduct the reasonable value of the road ceded through the whole length of their country from Ocmulgee toward New Orleans, a road of indispensable necessity to us, the present convention will be found to give little more than the half of the sum which was formerly proposed to be given.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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