From Thomas Jefferson to United States Senate, 23 December 1808
To the Senate of the United States
According to the request of the Senate, in their resolution of November 14. that copies should be laid before them of all the orders & decrees of the belligerent powers of Europe, passed since 1791. affecting the commercial rights of the United States, I now transmit them a report of the Secretary of State of such of them as have been attainable in the department of State, & are supposed to have entered into the views of the Senate.
Th: Jefferson
Dec. 23. 1808.
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.