Special Message
01/12/1809
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Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the ...
The title to these grounds appears to have been retained in the former sovereigns of the Province of Louisiana as public...
It is by no means proposed that these works should be conducted on account of the United States.
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of February 26, I now lay before them such memorials and petitions for t...