Special Message
10/30/1803
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The title to these grounds appears to have been retained in the former sovereigns of the Province of Louisiana as public...
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of ...
It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.
I must repeat, therefore, my firm belief that the letters of Nimmo of November 28, 1806, and of John Smith of January, 1...