Excerpt from Message From the President of the United States, Transmitting a Report From the Secretary of State: With Copies of the Correspondence With the Government of France, Touching the Interpretation of the Eighth Article of the Treaty for the Cession of Louisiana; February 17, 1825 The undersigned, Secretary of State has received and laid before the President, the note which he had the honor of receiving from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of France, complaining that French vessels are not, conformably to the sth article of the treaty of cession of Louisiana. Treated in the ports of that state, upon the footing of the most favored nation; and claim ing, as a right, deducible from the same article, that French vessels should in future enjoy, in the ports of Louisiana. All the advantages granted to the English nation in all the ports of the Union. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.