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On the recordDecember 4, 1803
All differences in consequence thereof have been amicably adjusted, and the treaty of 1786 between this country and that has been recognized and confirmed by the Emperor, each party restoring to the other what had been detained or taken.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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