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On the recordJanuary 26, 1806
These, with my message to both Houses of the 17th instant and the documents accompanying it, fulfill the desires of the Senate as far as it can be done by any information in my possession which is authentic and not publicly known.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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