Special Message
02/08/1808
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Governor Claiborne, being duly invested with the powers heretofore exercised by the governor and intendant of Louisiana, assumed the governm...
Our commissioners, on their arrival at New Orleans, found the Province already delivered by the commissioners of Spain to that of France, wh...
In execution of the act of the present session of Congress for taking possession of Louisiana, as ceded to us by France, and for the tempora...
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 yea...