5/31/2023 0 Comments Nootka tribe facts![]() The country having been ceded by Spain to France, the passport you have from the minister of France, the representative of the present sovereign of the country, will be a protection with all it’s subjects & that from the minister of England will entitle you to the friendly aid of any traders of that allegiance with whom you may happen to meet. Your mission has been communicated to the ministers here from France, Spain, & Great Britain, and through them to their governments & such assurances given them as to it’s objects, as we trust will satisfy them. ![]() What follows will respect your proceedings after your departure here the United states. will be better directed by occasional communications, adapted to circumstances as they arise, they will not be noticed here. men, boats, tents, & other travelling apparatus, with ammunition, medecine, surgical instruments and provisions you will have prepared with such aids as the Secretary at War can yield in his department & from him also you will recieve authority to engage among our troops, by voluntary agreement, the number of attendants above mentioned, over whom you, as their commanding officer, are invested with all the powers the laws give in such a case.Īs your movements while within the limits of the U.S. Light articles for barter and presents among the Indians, arms for your attendants, say for from 10. Instruments for ascertaining, by celestial observations, the geography of the country through which you will pass, have been already provided. 18, 1803 to the legislature you have seen the act they passed, which, tho’ expressed in general terms, was meant to sanction those objects, and you are appointed to carry them into execution. has made you acquainted with the objects of my confidential message of Jan. ![]() Your situation as Secretary of the President of the U.S. Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803, Instructions,
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