Message from the President of the United States, to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-Third Congress. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...it would probably have sold for had it reached its destined market. In some few cases, the amount of the claim could not be obtained from the memorial. In such cases, recourse has been had to the proofs on file; and, when it could be obtained from neither of those sour.-es, it has been left blank, or been supplied by the claimants' representative before die board. Office Of The Fhkncii Commission, June 3, 1834. Office of the Commissioners under the act to carry into effect the Con' venlion with France, Washington Citt, 18M September, 1832. Ordered, That all persons having claims under the convention between the United States and his Majesty, the King of the French, concluded on the 4th of July, 1831, do file memorials of the same with the Secretary of the Board. Every memorial so filed must be addressed to the Commissioners: it must set forth minutely and particularly the facts and circumstances whence the right to prefer such claim is derived to the claimant; and it must be verified by his affidavit And I order that claimants may be apprized of what the board now considers necessary to be averred in every such memorial, before the same will be received and acted on, it is further Ordered, That in every such memorial it shall be set forth: 1. For and in behalf of whom the claim is preferred. 2. Whether the claimant is a citizen of the United States of America, and, if so, whether he is native or naturalized, and where is now his domicil: if he claims in his own right, then whether he was a citizen when the claim had its origin, and where was then his domicil; or if he claims in the right of another, then whether such other was a citizen when the claim had its origin, and where was then, and where is now, his domicil. 3. Whether the entire amount of the clai...