From Thomas Jefferson to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 7 December 1803
To the Senate and the House of Representatives
To the Senate and
House of Representatives of the US.
Since the last communication made to Congress of the laws of the Indiana Territory, I have recieved those of which a copy is now inclosed for the information of both houses.
Th: Jefferson
Dec. 7. 1803.
RC (DNA: RG 233, PM, 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a House clerk. PrC (DLC). RC (DNA: RG 46, LPPM, 8th Cong., 1st sess.); endorsed by a Senate clerk. Both letters recorded in SJL and connected with a brace to notation “Indiana laws.” Enclosures: copies of one law and two resolutions passed by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory from 16 Feb. to 24 Mch. 1803 (Trs in DNA: RG 233, PM; PrCs in DNA: RG 46, LPPM).
last communication: TJ to the Senate and the House of Representatives, 14 Feb. 1803 (Vol. 39:525).
TJ’s message and its accompanying papers were received by the House of Representatives on 7 Dec. and by the Senate on 8 Dec. Both houses ordered them to lie on the table (, 4:472, 481; , 3:321-2). They were subsequently printed as Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Certain Laws of the Indiana Territory of the United States (Washington, D.C., 1803).