363
Communications & resolns of Virginia on the Alien & Sedition laws.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 69, as above.
The Communications of several States, on the resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, respecting the Alien and Sedition
Laws.
Richmond: Printed by order of the
General Assembly. [
1799.]
E321 .V831
This book was marked missing in the working copy of the 1815 Catalogue, at the time of the delivery of the books, and the
entry dropped from the later catalogues. It was probably not delivered to Congress.
The Alien and Sedition Laws were enacted by Congress in 1798 because of the threatened war with France, and the desire of
the Federalists to block the Jeffersonian republicans at the polls. The laws were in part repealed by Jefferson in 1802. The
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Laws were written by Madison and Jefferson respectively.
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J. 364
Proceedings of the Commissioners on the British debts.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 273, as above, p. 4to.
Five tracts bound in one volume, 4to., half calf, probably bound for Jefferson; later labels on the back lettered
Miscellaneous /
Pamphlets /
660.
AC901 .M5 Vol. 660
Jefferson mentioned the claims in general in a letter to Edmund Pendleton (President of the Supreme Court of Appeals) in a
letter dated from Philadelphia, February 14, 1799: “
. . . I believe it is now certain that the Commissioners on the British debts can proceed together no longer. I am told that
our two have prepared a long report, which will perhaps be made public. the result will be that we must recur again to negociation,
to settle the principles of the British claims . . .
”
1. CUNNINGHAM,
William, & Co.
The Claim and Answer, in the case of William Cunningham & Co. against the United States; under the Sixth Article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic
Majesty and the United States of America.
Philadelphia: Printed by
John Fenno.
m,dcc,xcviii
. [1798.]
4to. 55 leaves including three leaves of tables printed on one side only; 3 parts in 1, the first two with continuous signatures
and separate pagination, the third (Appendix) with separate signatures and pagination. On the last page is a letter to John
Read, signed and dated by Charles Lee, 2d April 1798.
Sabin 17975.
Evans 34906.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.
The Claim is signed by Thomas Gordon, Attorney in fact for William Cunningham & Co.; the Answer by John Read, Jun. Agent-General for the United States, dated April 3d, 1798; the Appendix is a Proclamation by Patrick Henry, Junior, Governor or Chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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2. CUNNINGHAM,
William, & Co.
The Reply of William Cunningham, & Co. to the answer of the United States to their Claim and Memorial.
Philadelphia: Printed by
James Humphreys,
1798.
Folio. 18 leaves; signed and dated at the end by William Moore Smith, Chestnut-street, Philadelphia, May 9th, 1798.
Sabin 17976.
Evans 34906 (erroneously described as the “2nd title” of the above tract).
Lower margins cut close, one or two corrections in ink.
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