these orders Shall be payable Sixty days after the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty and the Conventions Signed this day, and after possession Shall be given of Louisiana by the Commissaries ...

The Louisiana Purchase ... 15 million on April 29. The treaty was signed by Barbé-Marbois, Livingston and Monroe on May 2 and backdated to April 30. Although the purchase was undeniably a bargain ...

By Paul A. Tenkotte, PhD Special to NKyTribune “The public mind has for some time appeared to be interested and alarmed, ...