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to be found. I have recd. no account of the laws of the last session except the slight notice of it in your letter of the 19th Feby. Under all these embarrassments the attorney genl has declined giving any opinion and recommends that the case of the Africans be left to the decision of the courts, before which the case is supposed to be now pending. This opinion has been rec'd. this morning. Under all the circumstances, I do not know that any other course can with propriety be pursued. From the collector of unclear or of the district of Brunswick I have recd. circumstantial statements of the unclear. By one recently recd. it appears that the negroes have been taken out of the hands of the collector by an agent of the governor of the State. Against