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2193. DEPORTATION ACT, Unexecuted.—

Notwithstanding the laws the English
made, I think they never ventured to
carry a single person to be tried in England.
They knew that reprisals would be made,
and probably on the person of the governor
who ventured on the measure.—
Notes on M. Soule's Work. Washington ed. ix, 300. Ford ed., iv, 307.
(P. 1786)