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6095. OFFICES, Geographical equilibrium.—[further continued].

Mr. R[obert] S. S[mith,
Attorney-General], has had a commission
given to Eli Williams as commissioner of the
Western road. I am sorry he has gone out
of Baltimore for the appointment, and also
out of the ranks of Republicanism. It will
furnish new matter for clamor.—
To Albert Gallatin. Ford ed., viii, 464.
(M. Aug. 1806)