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obligations to individuals - first branch - commission under the 17th article

original papers, in the most important parts of them, have disappeared, as some assert. At any rate, it would be of consequence to ascertain whether this last circumstance has occurred at all, and, if so, how & to what extent. If it has, it discloses an obliquity which renders investigation doubly imperative, however disagreeable.

I will close that portion of my subject which relates to the commission under the Seventeenth article of the treaty, by suggesting