To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
By: the undersigned, citizens of the Territory of Orleans ... represent that in the City of New-Orleans "and adjacent to the bank of the suburbs Ste.-Marie is a shoal ... commonly called the batture ..." : your petitioners verily believe, that the title to the batture, "originally in the former sovereigns of the country, was never parted with by them, but was retained in them for the use of the city and province, and consequently has now passed over to the United States."
Contributors: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1808
Place of publication: [New Orleans, La.?
Language: eng
Subjects: New Orleans Batture (La.)
Notes: English and French in parallel columns.
LC copy trimmed to 32 x 27 cm.