02/18/1806
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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 fiduciaries and for the purposes of the Province."
"The great volume of the documents and the time necessary for the investigation will explain to the Senate the causes of the delay which has intervened."
"In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for the district of Detroit, and such other information as is in my possession, in re..."