Special Message
11/10/1808
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It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.
From the State of Delaware alone no return has been made.
I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1...