Special Message
04/17/1806
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Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the ...
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
such combinations are too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vest...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...