Thomas Jefferson said...

It has been adjudged that the legal title was not in the city.

I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them ...

I am aware that as the consent of the legislature of the State to the purchase of the site may not in some instances hav...

This having been lately claimed by a private individual, the city opposed the claim on a supposed legal title in itself.