Special Message
11/10/1808
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I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, conce...
We have the satisfaction, however, to reflect that in return for the privations imposed by the measure, and which our fe...
The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained