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8383. TERRITORY, Alienation of.—[further continued] .

The Cabinet met * * * on the subject of your [President Washington's] circular letter, and agreed on all points,
except as to the power of ceding territory, on
which point there remained the same difference
of opinion as when the subject was discussed
in your presence.—
To President Washington. Ford ed., vi, 212.
(Pa., April. 1793)