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[2]

American State Papers, ed. Walter Lowrie and Matthew StC. Clarke (Washington, 1832), V, 730.

[3]

Philadelphia Aurora, Feb. 15, 1802, p. 2, col. 1.

[4]

Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Feb. 16, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[5]

Ibid.

[6]

Philadelphia Gazette, Feb. 16, 1802, p. 3, col. 3.

[7]

Ibid., Feb. 17, 1802, p. 3, col. 3.

[8]

Ibid., Feb. 18, 1802, p. 3, col. 3.

[9]

Ibid., Feb. 18, 1802, p. 3, col. 4.

[10]

Philadelphia Gazette, Feb. 19, 1802, p. 3, col. 3; Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Feb. 20, 1802, p. 3, col. 3.

[11]

Reports of the meeting appear in Philadelphia Aurora, Feb. 22, 1802, p. 2, col. 3; Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, Feb. 22, 1802, p. 3, cols. 1-2.

[12]

Philadelphia Aurora, March 2, 1802, p. 2, cols. 1-2.

[13]

Philadelphia Gazette, March 4, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[14]

Ibid., March 2, 1802, p. 3, col. 2; Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, March 3, 1802, p. 3, col. 1.

[15]

New York Evening Post, Feb. 16, 1802, p. 3, col. 2; Daily Advertiser, Feb. 17, 1802, p. 3, col. 1; American Citizen, Feb. 17, 1802, p. 2, col. 3.

[16]

New York Evening Post, Feb. 25, 1802, p. 2, col. 4; Daily Advertiser, Feb. 25, 1802, p. 3, col. 3.

[17]

Daily Advertiser, Feb. 26, 1802, p. 3, col. 3.

[18]

New York Evening Post, Feb. 25, 1802, p. 3, col. 3; Daily Advertiser, Feb. 26, 1802, p. 3, col. 5.

[19]

Reports of the meeting appear in New York Evening Post, March 1, 1802, p. 3, col. 1; Daily Advertiser, March 1, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[20]

American Citizen, March 2, 1802, p. 2, col. 3.

[21]

Ibid., March 4, 1802, p. 2, col. 4, p. 3, col. 1.

[22]

New York Evening Post, March 4, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[23]

Typefounding deleted.

[24]

they deleted.

[25]

Columbian Centinel, Feb. 24, 1802, p. 2, col. 1.

[26]

Ibid., March 10, 1802, p. 2, col. 4; Independent Chronicle, March 11, 1802, p. 2, col. 3.

[27]

Columbian Centinel, March 13, 1802, p. 2, col. 4. Notice that memorial is ready to be signed is in Independent Chronicle, March 15, 1802, p. 3, col. 3.

[28]

Columbian Centinel, March 13, 1802, p. 2, col. 2; Independent Chronicle, March 15, 1802, p. 2, cols. 2-3.

[29]

Columbian Centinel Extra, March 24, 1802, p. 2, col. 1, from Thomas's Massachusetts Spy, Feb. 24, 1802, p. 3, cols. 3-4.

[30]

Federal Gazette, Feb. 24, 1802, p. 3, col. 3; Baltimore Telegraphe, Feb. 25, 1802, p. 3, col. 5.

[31]

Federal Gazette, Feb. 27, 1802, p. 3, col. 3; Baltimore Telegraphe, Feb. 27, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[32]

National Intelligencer, March 3, 1802, p. 3, cols. 2-3.

[33]

Ibid., March 5, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[34]

Charleston Times, March 15, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[35]

Ibid., March 16, 1802, p. 3, col. 2.

[36]

Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826), IV, 356.