Special Message
11/14/1804
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It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.
The title to these grounds appears to have been retained in the former sovereigns of the Province of Louisiana as public...
In no part of the papers communicated by Mr. Clark, which are voluminous and in different languages, nor in his letters,...
The idea suggested by him of removing the institution to this place is also worthy of attention.