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4848. LOUISIANA, Payment for.—

We shall not avail ourselves of the three months'
delay after possession of the province, allowed
by the treaty for the delivery of the
stock, but shall deliver it the moment that
possession is known here, which will be on
the eighteenth day after it has taken place.—
To Robert R. Livingston. Washington ed. iv, 512. Ford ed., viii, 279.
(W. Nov. 1803)