Special Message
12/20/1803
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It is found that no steps have been taken for the purpose.
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 ...
Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced...