Thomas Jefferson actually said...

hereby requiring their respective Senators and Representatives then and there to assemble in Congress, in order to receive such communicatio...

The portion actually completed has rendered the situation of the persons confined much more comfortable and secure than it has been heretofo...

Their services to be compensated are from the 1st day of June last.

I now lay before Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government.