On the recordDecember 30, 1803
No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of $18,560 unexpended at the end of the last year remains now in the Treasury.
Source
presidency.ucsb.eduNo occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of $18,560 unexpended at the end of the last year remains now in the Treasury.
Special Message
Share
More from Thomas Jefferson
The expense as well as the importance of the work renders it a subject proper for the special consideration of Congress.
I suppose it will be the interest of the United States to encourage the wandering tribes of that country to reduce themselves to fixed habitations whenever they are so disposed.
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.