Andrew Wiley
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Displaying 121 - 140 of 1162I have seen Mr Jenkins several times since his return, he & his friends are exc highly pleased with his appointment, I thought it improper immediately to speak to him on the subject, but sent for his brother Seth who desired me to be perfectly easy on the subject & to inform you that the mayor would unequivocally vote for you.
Mr Madisons instructions to Messrs Monroe & Pinkney May 18th 1806
In your paper on the 16th.
Report of the Attorney General, also mentioned in the minutes of yesterday:
The Attorney General in obedience to the resolution of the hon. the assembly of this day, directing him to report the existing provisions by law relative to the payment of prizes in Medical Science Lottery number five:
The undersigned commissioners, appointed in pursuance of the act, entitled "an act relative to the claims of John Jacob Astor, on certain lands in the county of Putnam," beg permission to make the following Report to his excellency the Governor:
The meeting having convened pursuant to adjournment, and the nomination of lieutenant-governor and the address of the republican members of the legislature, made at Albany on the 15th ult. having been read,
Resolved, unanimously, That we will support
REPUBLICAN PATRIOTISM.
CITY OF HUDSON.
Benjamin F. Butler,
ATTORNEY & SOLICITOR,
HAS formed a connection in business with M. Van Buren, Esq. Their office is at No. 107 State street.
Albany. June 20. 1820. 74
Be pleased to procure me the Papers relating to the Capture of the Brig William Thompson Master of this Port, deposited by T Watkins in the office of the Department of State as pr. his Letter to me bearing date July 10th. 1824.
The papers alluded to in the within letter were before the commissioner to liquidate claims under the Florida treaty, and deposited in the department of State by Mr. Watkins as Secretary to the board of commissioners.
I shall be greatly obliged if you will have the papers forwarded to me at an early day as requested by my constituent.
I take the liberty to enclose the statements of a claim in favour of the owners of the Brig Splendid, on the Mexican government, for the forcible detention and use of their vessel in the transportation of troops and munitions of war from Vera Cruz to Tampico, during the Spanish invasion of the Mexican territory in 1829. The Captains affidavit accompanies the claim.
AT the last Court of Common Pleas held at the city of Hudson. I left at some house in Hudson, or was stolen from Mr. Swart's Tavern, a drab colored superfine broadcloth SURTOUT COAT. Any person who may have found it or discovered who has stolen it will be handsomely rewarded for leaving the coat with or communicating his knowledge to Mr. Swart.
Feeling and speaking the sentiments of the republicans of the county of Columbia, whom we have been appointed to represent, we consider it our duty to communicate to you our ideas on the present important crisis.
The select committee of the senate to whom has been referred the bill for continuing the state tax for one year, request your opinion whether the funds of the state will not admit of the discontinuance of the state tax, without great embarrassment in the fiscal affairs of the state, or prejudice to the public faith.
Not having received an answer to the note which I had the honor of addressing to you yesterday, by my friend Mr. Grosvenor—You will readily perceive that there is but one course left. Mr. Grosvenor is fully authorized on the subject, and I presume you or your friend, will arrange it for as early a day as possible.
The language which you used respecting me and my conduct in court, last Saturday evening, renders it necessary that I call on you for such explanation, apology, or satisfaction, as one gentleman when thus injured has a right to demand from another. My friend, Mr.
To the Hon. Martin Van Beuren, Senator elect in the Congress of the United States, Chief of the Tails, Poet Laureate, &c. &c.
My Dear Matty,
In endeavoring to renew the stale contest between the great parties of this country, have you been accustomed to reflect on consequences?— Permit me to lay before you some of the evils of party spirit, which, like the arch apostate always strives at evil, though sometimes foiled and producing its opposite.
The attorney-general, to whom was referred the engrossed bill, from the honorable the Assembly, entitled "an act for the relief of Benson Hunt," reported as follows, to wit:
I had the honour to receive on my way to this place your obliging Letter informing me of my election as an honorary member of the "Planters Club on Pee Dee" I beg leave to assure your brother members that I shall ever remember with unalloyed satisfation the happy hours which it was my good fortune to spend at the cheerful & truly hospitable board and that I...