From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 15 April 1806
Apr. 15. 1806.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the US
The Senate having advised & consented to the ratification of a treaty concluded with the Piankeshaw Indians for extinguishing their claim to the country between the Wabash and Kaskaskia cessions, it is now laid before both houses for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling it on our part.
Th: Jefferson
DNA: RG 233—LRHR—Legislative Records of the House of Representatives.