Special Message
03/09/1808
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The works undertaken at New York are calculated to annoy and endanger any naval force which shall enter the harbor.
The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.
$990 were paid to the order of Governor Williams on the same account.
According to the resolution of the Senate of the 17th instant, I now transmit them the information therein requested, re...