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5870. NEUTRALITY, Public vessels.—[continued].

The bringing vessels to,
of whatever nation, while within the limits of
the protection of the United States, will be
pointedly forbidden; the government being
firmly determined to enforce a peaceable demeanor
among all the parties within those
limits, and to deal to all the same impartial
measure.—
To the Governor of Virginia. Washington ed. iii, 564.
(Pa., May. 1793)