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Ps\PERS OF 1\fIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
shall go into effect ;-Your petitioners deem it unnecessary to urge upon your consideration the National advantages that must result to your yet infant but flourishing Republick from a Completion of said undertaking; more than to say, that while it will develope the Na- tional. resources of your Goverment; it will at the same time afford commercial facilities to your citizens, by opening to them a direct in. tercourse with all the commercial Nations of the World, by the means of which; they can transport their Sugar and Cotton (the staple products of their country) with great, and cheap facility, to any port where the market will justify; and at the same time afford them an easy and direct import-trade-Your petitioners deem it unneces-. sary to specify the general powers which should be engrafted in the :ict of incorporation; believing that if you grant the act, that you will grant with it such powers and provisions as are incident to acts of incorporations; and without which, it would be incapable of pre- serving jts own perpetuity, as well as the rights of others and would sink beneath its own infirmity.- ·with a confident reliance upon your intelligence and your National pride for the Commercial prosperity of your infant Republick we submit out petition to you, believing that you will give it that con- sideration which the importince of the petition presents; and your sense of justice will dictate- With sentiments of respect we subscribe ourselves- your &c- This 28th November 1838-
Wilson Kirk, Shinn Hugh Crolley [rubric] North Evans [rubric]
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Wilson Kirk Shinn, Hugh Crolley &. North Evans-Memorial to Congress-Nov. 27. 1838.
No. 895
1883 Nov. 27, W. K. SHINN TO 1\I. B. LAl\IAR
Clarksburg Harrison County Virginia Nov 27th 1838 Hon. 1\1 B Lamar, sir,
On this sheet you will find a petition 12 to your legislature to grant an ?'Ct of incorporation &c for the pur• pose of clearing out the raft in the Colorado river, you will please be kind anough to present it to Congress with any remarks you may think advisable not onely for the benefcit of your own citizens, but also for the petitioners, - I was examining the Colorado river last winter and am satisfied that by expending a considerable sum of
"No. 894.
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