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On the recordDecember 22, 1805
The governor and presiding judge of the Territory of Michigan have made a report to me of the state of that Territory, several matters in which being within the reach of the legislative authority only, I lay the report before Congress.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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