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(BY AUTHORITY) LAWS oe tjTeTut. S TATES. Session 1809 & 1810. AN ACT extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled That the secretary of war be authorised to issue military land warrants to such persons as have, or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of their claims ; which warrants with thofe heretofore iiTued and not yet fatisfied, (hall and may be located in the Hamcs of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the firft day of O&ober, one 'thoufanrl eight hundred and thirteen, on any unlocatetl parts of the fifty quarter townfliipsand the fradlional qn irter town, fhips, referveil by law for original holders of military land warrants. J. B- VAKNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ANDREW GH EGG, President of the Senate pro tcin. December ly, 1809. Approved, JAMES MADISON.

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DOCUMENTS WHICH ACCOMPANIED THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 4

UNITED STATES.

( Continued. )

With refpect to hi? intimations in convt rlation, as they were preceded by no proper allignment of the realuiis tor not hiving executed the original adjuftrnent, it cannot be necelTary ti) remark, that no futh notice, as he wilhed to obtain, could with any fort of propriety have been taken of them. With refpect to his written project, it will fuilice to remark: 111. That betides Ills reluctant and indiftinct explanation of the liifavowal of the origin . I adjuflment, he did not prefent liH.prp'ifal vnu he lir.d made fuch prorefs in his rtTenlive intinuatio! s hs tnadr it proper t v.it the liTue of the replv ahfut to be kivcu to it, and tlut tr.ii iSHie had put .t ip to tuithcr 1 onimunications :

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ill) W J U !lVC S r C!i"t.ltirCi il.V(" not.

November, fubfequcnt to h'13 propofl, be fays he was potreilcdof a full power in due form for the express purpofe of concluding a treaty or convention, but k ftill remains uncertain, whether by the treaty or convention to which it related, was net meant an eventual or provifional tre?ty on the general relations between the tvo countries, without any reference to the cfe of the Chefiprake, certain it is that the Hriti(!if tfoverilment, iif former like cafes, as will be feen by the adtuftment of that part cf tlie

affair at Nootka found, which is analogous !

to this cafr, did, not confider any fuch diU tinct full power as necetTary, nor is there the fliglite.il ground for ftippfing that Mr. Erfkiue, althougli. 1 onfeLTctlly inltructcd to adjult this very cafe of the Chefapakc, was furniflied witli any anthonty difiinct fioin his.credential letter, that Mr. Jaekfon hcs any fuch comuiiftion is the leia to be luppofed as it is but barely po&ble, that pof. fcfling it, he fliould not, on fome cccatiou, or in fome form, have ufed a language futceptable of no pollible doubt on this point. nt, proceeding to the propofil itftlf, it is to be kept in mind that the conditious forming its balis, are the very conditions for the deviating from which Mr. E. &inr's adjuftments was difavowed. Mr. Jckfon if not on others is on this point explicit. 1 now add," f,ys he, 41 that t'ne deviation confided in rot reeoiding in the otficial document figned here, the abrogation of the irr(idcnts pioclamation of :hc 2d of July, ltJOT, as well s the two refeive fpe cified in he pper of memoranda ir.tloi d in my oftL ial letter to you of the Jt'7th ultimo." ConftderinjT, then, the corditior.s in the propof.l as an ultimatum, in what, light are we compelled to vie? fueh an attempt to repair the outrage coinmtttd on thr Ingate Chei'peake, and to heal the dif..ppomtment produced by a difavowal of a previous erjuitable repartion ? It t: impofiible on fuch an ocrafin net to recall the cirt umftances, whuh tot liituted the character cf the? outt;.ge to whirii tuth an ultiinatuni is row rpolitd. A uatiotial fhij) proctoiiig m an importrit irrvice

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wan urn uy a mpci mi v,i - mm cr rojoy- j ty ir r "coii ' . t ir :o n a if (Ulc rr il.ff nie ing at the time the hclpiulity ofeut ptsjnt f art ..if..rt nl ich, ti" c ;ir to dccf.l

obvioufly invited a ftlent alTumpticn of ths exiftin fact, and this would have rXilut'cd the ditrtcuhy heretofore found to be infupei able. 2. Ky throwing into complete obliticn the conduct of the ofFn cr nfwi rable for the inurdeions tranfaction, with a knowledge too, on our part, that in!ed r.f being punittied, or evrp brought to trial, he has been houoied by his government with a nev and more important command. , 3. Hy admitting a right, on th prt of GreatBritiin, to eEini a oifr hargf frr m cur frrvice ol dt frrters generally i'd particularly of her nwtunl beni fubjrc ts, without excfpticj? fu h li-id beo iatprahzd irr dus form under the laws of the Uni?fT"States. it has not been explained, ' ether Z wasnienr, as the uu'uerfality cf ti e term " (IcWrtrrs" wrnld import, to it-rlude A me rican ritizers who misht have left thr Hrttifli frrvice. Hut wht poflible cor fnlrratioh could have induced the Iiritifii gnv rnwierit , tiT:pe(t that the United States ccuhf d mi: a principle that would deprive err ua finalized citizMis of thir legal prixilegff, which they hold in common w th th-ir native fellow citizens? The Britifh government Irfs than aiy other, out'io have made fuch a propolition. hrcaufr Itnot rnly, Jiki otliers, naturalizes aliens, but in relation to the United State?, h?s even rrfufed to difcharge from the BritiHi f'rvir native' citizens of the Ui'iteti tatr? ir vrluntf ily defainrd. If an American framan ha? reliord in Great Britain, or has mmied thrrein, or h .c ncrrptrd a bounty in her n?vd frrvice, hi difcharge therefrom on the reguEr - plication to the Britifti ovrn.ment h. been invpriably rrfufrd by its hoard of adnirlty. This I tUte on the authority .f the otHt iil reports made to this departn ent. It is tl rre-lor-truly aftot illiing thwt, vh!j a knov-1-dg' ol thtle fait:, futh ? preiei.fion Ihntdtl have orr-n vnred ?t but ab 11 th.f it flu i iuwr been iri:e a fu. qnr;i.ni to at? - t .t plain juHlce aire dj lol-.rgde-hiy d. ! ! is t J r in- e to be r-t- u t t c s ( he rvm (?- not Evor the brlff wr vnuU V.'lllmtf y r he ilfh. tl.it -n pre f i t : t c m. i. -t.ctl rxift': jii e fu1 c !? oi r - i m;i: it. j j f.

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