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And again should the President of the United States have
reasons, which I cannot discover or think possible for continuing the
present passway from Washington to Mero district, by way of the
ferry being in future considered as the road established by the fifth
Article of the Treaty of Holston, you will in my Judgment consult
the true interest of the people of Tennessee in pointing out to him
the propriety and [strange symbol again] necessity of (his so declaring by some written
instrument, because if he passes the Act soon without appointing
Com) his appointing Commissioners to straighten and mark it-

For you will observe unless he does appoint persons to mark
the road, that the Commissioners appointed by the Act have
no authority to act under it, in other words they will have
no authority to Open it, or to exact a toll upon it for keeping
it in repair.-

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