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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Feb 12, 1821

The ratification by the Spanish Government of the treaty of amity, settlement, and limits between the United States and Spain, signed on the 22d of February, 1819, and on the 24th of that month ratified on the part of the United States…

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Feb 12, 1821

The return of the original papers now transmitted, to avoid the delay necessary to the making of copies, is requested.

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Feb 4, 1821

I herewith transmit, in confidence, to the Senate reports from the Secretary of State and of the Treasury, with the papers containing the correspondence and the information in possession of the Government the communication of which was…

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Feb 4, 1821

It is desired that the original letters may, when the Senate shall have no further use for them, be returned.

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Jan 30, 1821

...authorizing the location of a road from Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, to a point on the left bank of the Mississippi River between St. Louis and the mouth of the Illinois River...

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Jan 30, 1821

I transmit to Congress a report from the Secretary of the Treasury submitting copies of the instructions given to the commissioners appointed under the act of the 15th of May, 1820...

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Jan 30, 1821

...and copies of the report made by the said commissioners to the Treasury Department of the progress they have made in the execution of the duties prescribed by the said act...

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Jan 30, 1821

...together with maps of the country through which the location is to be made.

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Jan 17, 1821

I now transmit a report from the Secretary of War communicating the information desired.

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Jan 3, 1821

I now transmit a letter from the Secretary of War, with a report of the superintendent of Indian trade, which contains the information desired.

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Dec 31, 1820

I now submit for the information of the House a report from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying documents, which contains all the information in the possession of the Government required by that resolution.

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Dec 13, 1820

With the Weas, Kickapoos, Chippeways, Ottawas, Choctaws, and Mahas; and also a treaty with the Kickapoos amended as proposed by a resolution of the Senate at their last session

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Dec 13, 1820

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st November last, requesting the President to lay before the House information relating to the progress and expenditures of the commissioners under the fifth, sixth…

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Dec 13, 1820

I submit to the consideration of the Senate, for their advice and consent as to the ratification, the following treaties, concluded with the several Indian tribes therein mentioned since the last session of Congress, with their documents

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James Monroe
@jamesmonroe· Democratic Republican · VA· Nov 13, 1820

The late change in the Government of Spain, by the reestablishment of the constitution of 1812, is an event which promises to be favorable to the revolution.

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