Thomas Jefferson actually said...

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

"Until I receive full consent to a free choice of route through the whole distance I have thought it safest neither to accept nor reject finally the partial report of the commissioners."

"I have received acts of the legislatures of Maryland and Virginia giving the consent desired; that of Pennsylvania has the subject still under consideration, as is supposed."

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