Of that sum $1,987.50 have been necessarily applied to the support of the Territorial governments of Michigan and Louisiana until an opportunity could occur of making a specific appropriation for that purpose.
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The same considerations of expense and importance render this also a question for the special decision of Congress.
I transmit to Congress a letter recently received from our minister at the Court of St. James, covering one to him from the British secretary of state, with his reply.
The establishment of towns and growing attachments to them will furnish in some degree pledges of their peaceable and friendly conduct.
I now render to Congress the account of the fund established for defraying the contingent expenses of Government for the year 1808.
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