Special Message
01/12/1809
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I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
That no means might be omitted to produce this salutary effect, I lost no time in availing myself of the act authorizing...
These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.
The documents containing the correspondences on the subject of the foreign edicts against our commerce, with the instruc...