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From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 23 February 1805

To the House of Representatives

To the House of Representatives
of the United States.

In further compliance with the desire of the House of Representatives, expressed in their resolution of Dec. 31. I now transmit the Report and map of Isaac Briggs, referred to in my message of the 1st. instant, and recieved by the last post from New Orleans.

Th: Jefferson

Feb. 23. 1805.

RC (DNA: RG 233, PM, 8th Cong., 2d sess.); date altered from 22 Feb.; endorsed by a House clerk. PoC (DLC); dated 22 Feb. Recorded in SJL under 22 Feb. with notation “Briggs’s map.” Enclosures: Isaac Briggs to TJ, 22 Dec. 1804, and map referred to there by Briggs.

Isaac A. Coles presented TJ’s message and the enclosed papers to the House of Representatives on 23 Feb. After reading the message, the House referred the papers to the Committee of the Whole House in considering the establishment of post roads from Tennessee and Georgia to the Tombigbee settlements and New Orleans (JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 5:149).

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to the House of Representatives, 23 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0577. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 567.]

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