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of Baltimore, in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, attest, and make known, that, on the day of the date hereof, before me personally appeared Abel Marple, at present of Baltimore, merchant, lately one of the partnersin the late house of trade of D ' A r c y , Dodge, & Co., merchants of Cape H e n r y , Hayti, and made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that the annexed printed paper, marked A, is a true copy of an official order, communicated to him as one of the acting partners in the said house of trade of D ' A r c y , Dodge, & Co., by the Government of Hayti, on the third of January, eighteen hundred and eleven, the day of its d a t e ; that the written paper hereunto annexed, marked B , i s a true copy of an original order communicated to him as one of the partners in the house aforesaid, by the Government of Hayti, on the twenty-seventh of April, eighteen hundred and eleven, the day of its d a t e ; . a n d that, in obedience to what is thereby required, the said house of D ' A r c y , Dodge, & Co., paid into the public treasury, out of the funds therein mentioned, such proportion of the whole sum required to be paid into the said treasury, as the amount arrested in their hands was to the whole amount of American property arrested by the Haytian Government. T h e said deponent further avers and attests, that it was at the time a matter of public notoriety, at Cape Henry aforesaid, that all the parties alluded to in the said order B did in like manner comply therewith, and which h e , the said deponent, believes was actually true, and that the full sum of one hundred and twenty four thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and nineteen cents of American property was accordingly paid into the public treasury of the Haytian Government. ABEL
MARPLE.
Of which an act having been of me requested, I have granted these p r e sents to serve and avail as need and occasion may r e q u i r e . In testimony whereof, the said deponent hath hereunto subscribed his name, and I the said notary public have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my notarial seal, the twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen. [L. S.] J N O . G I L L , Notary Public.
A. LIBERTÉ ET INDÉPENDANCE—ÉTAT
D'HAÏTI.
Ordre Général de l ' A r m é e , du Jeudi 3 Janvier, 1811, l'an huitième. n'y a pas eu d'ordre général depuis le 15 Octobre, 1810.)
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Son Altesse S. Monseigneur le Président, ayant jugé nécessaire de faire passer aux Etats Unis d'Amérique, pour achat de divers objets pour l e compte du Gouvernement, une somme de cent vingt-quatre mille neuf cent cinquante-cinq gourdes dix-neuf centimes, ainsi qu'il suit, savoir: 741,0001. de café, montant des cargaisons du navire Anglais Earl Bathurst et du brick Américain Madeira, consignés à Messrs. Von Kapff & B r u n e , négocians à Baltimore, lesquels cafés, à raison d e 20s. la livre, forment la somme de . . . . $89,818 17