Special Message
01/17/1803
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It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
I do hereby further require and command all officers having authority, civil or military, and all other persons, civil o...
Of the gun boats authorized by the act of December last, it has been thought necessary to build only 103 in the present ...
This candid and liberal experiment having thus failed, and no other event having occurred on which a suspension of the e...