The Choctaws, being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be discharged by the ordinary proceeds of their huntings, and pressed for payment, proposed to the United States to cede lands to the amount of their debts, and designated them in two different portions of their country.
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I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.
I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of the United States according to the latest returns received by the Department of War.
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