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knowledged by every committee who have reported upon the sub- 

 ject, and are appreciated by Congress and the whole country. 



" The undersigned believe that they express as well their own 

 sentiments and those of their constituents, as of the friends of the 

 expedition generally, in asking that Mr. Reynolds be placed at the 

 head of the civil and scientific corps, having a general superin- 

 tendence over, and that he be authorized to write the history of 

 the expedition, having such rank, powers, and compensation, as 

 the administration may think proper to bestow. 



" Respectfully, your obedient servants, 



" Benjamin Jones, William K. Bond, Thomas Corwin, R. Storer, 

 Josh. H. Crane, T. L. Hamer, S. Mason, Samuel F. Vinton, 

 Elias Ho well, John Chaney, William Patterson, David Spangler, 

 Elisha Whittlesey, I. Sloane, William Hermon, J. M'Lene, John 

 Thomson, Taylor Webster, Daniel Kilgore. 



" July 2d, 1836." 



To his Excellency Andrew Jackson. 



"Sra, 



" In the Exploring Expedition which has been ordered out under 

 the direction of the general government, we would respectfully 

 recommend J. N. Reynolds, Esq., as the chief of the civil appoint- 

 ments. 



" The unremitting zeal of this gentleman in the cause of his coun- 

 try and of science, his former experience as a navigator, his scien- 

 tific acquirements and capacity, would seem to us to point him out 

 as the person most deserving the appointment. 



u J. Fry, Jun., Jos. Henderson, 



J. B. Anthony, J. Miller, 



Edward B. Hull, Henry A. Muhlenburg, 



J. R. Ingersoll, H. L. Pinckney, 



A. Beaumont, John Reynolds, 



George Chambers, R. Johnson, 



E. Darlington, A. Huntsman, 



David Potts, Jun., Francis Thomas, 



J. B. Sutherland, Dutee J. Pearce, 



Isaac M'Kim, William Sprague, 



John M'Keon, A. Vanderpool, 



G. W. Owens, William L. May, 



