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On the recordDecember 20, 1803
As the settlement of the boundaries of Louisiana will call for new negotiations on our receiving possession of that Province, the claims not obtained by the convention now before the Senate may be incorporated into those discussions.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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