Thomas Jefferson actually said...

Indeed, it would be the most proper and acceptable form in which the annuity could be paid which we propose to give them for the cession.

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01/17/1803

More Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I now lay his memoir thereon before the Legislature, the only authority competent to a final decision on the same.

I lay before Congress the laws for the government of Louisiana, passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory at their session ...

Some matters suggested in the report belong exclusively to the Legislature.

The progress which they made in the execution of the work during the last season will appear in their report now communicated to Congress.