12/05/1805
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"No doubt is entertained that the legislature deemed them such."
"I am not informed whether the positions ceded are the best which can be taken for securing their respective objects."
"Having received from sundry merchants at Baltimore a memorial on the same subject with those I communicated to Congress with my message of the 17th instant, I now communicate this also as a proper seq..."
"These, with my message to both Houses of the 17th instant and the documents accompanying it, fulfill the desires of the Senate as far as it can be done by any information in my possession which is aut..."