Sir, Having been in the lobby a few days ago, when the report of a committee upon an application from me to the last Congress was under consideration, I could not help thinking that the application, and the circumstances which had given rise to and attended it, were not perfectly known: I have presumed that it would not be unacceptable to gentlemen to be furnished with some statement that might throw some light upon it, and with that view have taken the liberty to address this paper to you, Sir, as I have done to each of the other members of the Legislature. ...
Contributors: United States. Congress House
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49688
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1794
Place of publication: [Philadelphia?
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: St. Clair, Arthur, -- 1734-1818; Claims; Indians of North America -- Treaties; Northwest, Old; United States -- Claims
Genres: Treaties
Other titles: Sir, Having been in the lobby a few days ago ..
Notes: Title taken from first lines of text

Signed on p. 5: Arthur St. Clair. Concerns St. Clair's claims against the United States Treasury for expenses incurred in 1787-88 while negotiating with Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory. St. Clair's memorial was presented to the Second Congress March 1, 1793, and taken up by a House committee of the Third Congress in Feb. 1794. "An act to compensate Arthur St. Clair" was passed May 31. Cf. the House journal for 1793-1794, and the committee's report (Bristol B9343, incorrectly dated 1795)

Not in Evans or Bristol

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