Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 30 January 1808

To the Senate of the United States

The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of the treaty with the Ottoways, Chippeways, Wyandots and Pottewatamies concluded at Detroit on the 17th. day of November last:

And also to the treaty concluded with the Choctaws at Pooshapukanuk on the 16th. of November 1805:

I now lay them before both houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling them.

Th: Jefferson

Jan. 30. 1808.

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