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Wasutneton, District Ni 
January 9, 1838. 
GENTLEMEN: By the first communication of the subser a a the 4th: 
+ eae the attention of your body was respectfully directed to the bill (No- 
555) of the House of Representatives, of the Ist session of the 22d Con- 
gress, reported the 26th of April, 1832, which conditionally conveyed to 
your memorialist and his associates a township of land, in southern Flor- 
ida, “ to encourage the introduction and promote the cultivation of ee 
plants in the United States ;” and also to the modification of said bill rudely 
sketched at the end of his supplementary memorial, from Campeachy, dated 
the 29th of December, 1834. In the same communication, he briefly ad- 
verted to the four leading annunciations of facts on which he founds his 
Ropes of ultimate success, for the immediate agation, and for the 
speedy cultivation, of all valuable len of the tropics, within the 
limits of southern Florida; and to the three principal circumstances on 
which he builds his expectations of the gradual acclimation of many pro- 
aie Doone of the tropics throughout the most sterile districts of al} our 
western States. He now, as respectfully and briefly as 
cane will auernipt to sketch, under three heads, the principal reasons on 
which he founds his claims to a favorable report from your committee, of 
a. bill to concede, conditionally, to himself and associates, a township of 
land, or thirty-six sections, in southern Florida ; ace = a ’ speedy passage 
of the mee bill into a law, by both Houses of Con 
t. tsonal services and sacrifices of the poe under the 
Treasury Rican? of the 6th of September, 1827, which could not be fully 
os by the Government price of a township of our chit fertile 
2d e repeated precedents of equivalent acts of Congress to encourage 
pares of partial utility to the public, by ceding to foreigners and their 
certain tracts of the most fertile soils in the most valuable situa- 
= ‘of the phere portians of oysteian States. 
1 merits of t 
lands ea be, in ihe proportion of a fitiieend to one, on the part of the 
grantee 
tions, persecu an the boasting Paul, are circu 
Which he fears may not be considered relevant, by corporate ‘nedlaeilicy, 
‘The examples of man mants, on the justice of our republican Gov- 
al 
-€rnment, and especially the history of the warriors of our holy revolution, 
have painfully taught him to fear that, if he appealed to the justice of Gov 
ernment alone, he might grow old and die before a law for his relief ona 
_be obtained. _ Had he been a French or an English consul, and had he 
rendered the same services to the French or English Government, he has 
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