Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 November 1803

To the Senate and the House of Representatives

To the Senate &
House of Representatives of the US.

The treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians being ratified with the advice and consent of the Senate, it is now laid before both houses in their legislative capacity. it will inform them of the obligations which the US. thereby contract, and particularly that of taking the tribe under their future protection; and that the ceded country is submitted to their immediate possession and disposal.

Th: Jefferson
Nov. 25. 1803.

RC (DNA: RG 233, PM, 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by clerks. PrC (DLC). RC (DNA: RG 46, LPPM, 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a clerk. Recorded in SJL with notation “Kaskaskia treaty.” Enclosure: treaty of 13 Aug. between the United States and the Kaskaskia tribe (Tr in DNA: RG 233, PM, certified as a true copy by Joshua Wingate, Jr., 15 Oct.); see Enclosure No. 1 at TJ to the Senate, 31 Oct.

possession and disposal: Lewis Harvie delivered the message to the House and the Senate on the 25th (JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 4:458; JS description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820-21, 5 vols. description ends , 3:315). By an act that TJ signed on 26 Mch. 1804, Congress provided for the survey and sale of public lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River “to which the Indian title has been or shall hereafter be extinguished” (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States … 1789 to March 3, 1845, Boston, 1855-56, 8 vols. description ends , 2:277-83).

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    From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 November 1803
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Senate, U.S.; House of Representatives, U.S.
    Date
    25 November 1803

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 25 November 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0037. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 43.]