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to administrate an Oath. That Mr. Rousseau is a Justice of the Peace in Baldwin County is not denied. That his jurisdiction in Civil Cases is local and confined to his district I admit; but that his warrant or official act in a criminal Case is equally local I deny. And the Gov. ought to have known, that by a Law of Georgia certain portions of the Indian Country is declared to be within the jurisdiction of the State for Criminal purposes; and that in particular, that part of the Creek Country in which my witnesses resided, was in this situation. The Constitutionality of that Law is not now the question, neither his his Exclly made that a question; it is enough for the present purpose that out Superior Courts have for the purposes for which it was passed declared it constitutional and acted under it. hence it was competent for Mr. Rousseau, as well under the terms prescribed by yourself, as under the Law, to act officially in taking the testimony. But the Gov. by way of Salvo? for the ignorance which he had betrayed in the previous part of his protest, concludes by proposing to bring the Witnesses to Clinton in Jones County, in order that he might have an opportunity of examining them. [crossed out: Now if his Excellency had clothed me with inquisitorial powers that like himself I was (which he had about)] At the moment of making this proposition he could not have been so ignorant as not to know, that I had no power to remove the witnesses; unless order he fancied,