"It will be perceived that some of these are not of recent dates, and that from the States of Maryland and Delaware no returns are stated."
"As far as appears from our records, none were ever rendered from either of these States."
"From the Territories of Orleans, Louisiana, and Michigan complete returns have not yet been received."
"It was reasonably expected that while the limits between the territories of the United States and of Spain were unsettled neither party would have innovated on the existing state of their respective p..."
"Unwilling to take any measures which might preclude a peaceable accommodation of differences, the officers of the United States were ordered to confine themselves within the country on this side of th..."
"I have thought it proper to communicate to Congress the letter detailing this incident, that they may fully understand the state of things in that quarter and be enabled to make such provision for its..."
"We have no information of this letter but through the channel of the party interested in the ship, nor any proof of it more authentic than that now communicated."
"If these be within the scope of the request of the Senate, the printed copies can be sent in immediately, but if translations be necessary some considerable time will be requisite for their execution."
"On this subject any further desire which the Senate shall think proper to express shall be complied with."
"The examination of the Red River itself is but now commencing."
"Having been disappointed, after considerable preparation, in the purpose of sending an exploring party up that river in the summer of 1804, it was thought best to employ the autumn of that year in pro..."
"We entered the Missouri May 14, 1804, and on the 1st of November took up our winter quarters near the Mandan towns, 1,609 miles above the mouth of the river."