Special Message
04/10/1806
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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of ...
Lieutenant Pike on his part made presents to the Indians to some amount.
These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.
It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.