JAMES MONROE.

WASHINGTON, _January 18, 1821_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 4th instant,

"requesting the President of the United States to communicate to the

Senate any information he may have as to the power or authority which

belonged to Don John Bonaventure Morales and to the Baron Carondelet

to grant and dispose of the lands of Spain in Louisiana previously to

the year 1803," I transmit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury,

submitting a letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with

the document to which it refers.

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