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Raleigh March 26^h 1804

Sir

It is with pleasure Iinform
you that the business of the State
of Tennessee here will be closed
this week, immediately after which
I shall hasten out

It will not be in
my power to make the Report
to you contemplated by the Resolution
of the Legislature before leaving
this place for two reasons one of
which is that the final determina=
=tion of Congress with respect to the
assent referred to in the proposed compact
between N^o Carolina and Tennessee
is not as yet known- the other
that from the [examination?] occasioned
by fatigue and attention to business