Special Message
12/20/1803
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With the Barbary Powers we continue in harmony, with the exception of an unjustifiable proceeding of the Dey of Algiers ...
The instrument is now submitted to the Senate, with a request of their advice and consent as to its ratification.
to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
The documents containing the correspondences on the subject of the foreign edicts against our commerce, with the instruc...