Special Message
11/13/1803
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to the end that the authority of the laws may be maintained
I now transmit to both Houses of Congress a report of the commissioners appointed under the act of March 29, 1806, conce...
I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for public...
Their desire of entering into connection with the United States and of getting a trading house established there induced...