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1813. CORRESPONDENCE, Between Citizens.—[continued].

The right of free correspondence
between citizen and citizen on their
joint interests, public or private, and under
whatsoever laws these interests arise, is a
natural right of every individual citizen, not
the gift of municipal law, but among the objects
for the protection of which municipal
laws are instituted.—
Jury Petition. Washington ed. ix, 451. Ford ed., vii, 161.
(1797)