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1756. CONSULS, Reception of.—[continued].

By what member of the
government the right of giving or withdrawing
permission is to be exercised here, is a
question on which no foreign agent can be
permitted to make himself the umpire. It is
sufficient for him, under our government, that
he is informed of it by the Executive.—
To E. C. Genet. Washington ed. iv, 90. Ford ed., vi, 463.
(Pa., Dec. 1793)