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6
36.
JOSEPH BARKER'S CLAIM. W A S H I N G T O N , February
4, 1817.
S I R : T h e enclosed papers have been sent to m e , with a request that t h e y should be laid before the Government, in case of an application to the Government of Hayti for the payment of moneys due to the citizens of the United States. T h e originals a r e , I presume, in the hands of the owner; and, from my personal knowledge of his character, I cannot doubt that it is a just claim which he now asserts. I have the honor to be, with the highest respect and consideration, your most obedient and humble servant, JOSEPH STORY. Hon.
JAMES MONROE,
Secretary
of
Stale.
U N I T E D S T A T E S OF AMERICA. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, MARBLEHEAD, ESSEX,
ss:
On this eighteenth day of J a n u a r y , in the y e a r of our Lord one thou sand eight hundred and seventeen, before m e , N a t h a n B o w e n , notary public for said county, duly admitted and sworn, residing at said Marblehead, personally came, Joseph B a r k e r , Esq., of said Marblehead, and made oath that the annexed documents, purporting to be the general order of the army of the State of Hayti, the King of Hayti's order, and the stip ulated treasurer's receipts, a r e true and correct copies from the documents translated from the F r e n c h original ; and I hereby certify that the annexed document, purporting to be the account current of the schooner Sally's cargo, is a true and correct copy of the original—I having examined the same and find it to agree therewith—and that the said Joseph B a r k e r was the sole owner of said schooner Sally's cargo; and that the cash paid into the T r e a s u r y according to the order of the King, under date of the twentysixth of April, as mentioned in said account, was his property. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my [ L . S.] notarial seal the day, month, and y e a r , first aforesaid. N A T H A N B O W E N , Notary Public.
L I B E R T Y A N D I N D E P E N D E N C E — S T A T E OF HAYTI.
General order of the army, on Thursday, the 3d of January, 1811, the eighth year of independence. (There has not been any general order since the \5ih October, 1810.) His Supreme Highness, the President, having judged necessary to send to the United States of America, for purchasing a variety of articles on account of his Government, the sum of one h u n d r e d and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and nineteen cents, as fol lows, viz : 7 4 1 , 0 0 0 lbs. of coffee, amount of the cargoes of the English ship E a r l Bathurst, and of the American brig M a d e r i a , consigned to Messrs. V o n Kapff & B r u n e , merchants, in B a l t i m o r e , which coffee, at the rate of 2 0 sous per pound, would amount to $89,818 17