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petition for special accessibility to thirty-six sections of land, on such con¬ 
ditions as to render them barely possible means of attracting associates 
and funds to continue an arduous enterprise which he has pursued du¬ 
ring seven years, unaided and alone, although acting under express in¬ 
structions of the Government of the United States, contained in the 
Treasury circular of the 6th of September, 1827. 
9. That, although the prospective services of your memorialist should 
alone be considered amply sufficient to ensure the immediate passage of a 
conditional law, similar to the humble bill rudely sketched at the end of this 
memorial - yet, duty to his family induces him to add that, in obedience to 
the Treasury circular aforesaid, your memorialist has long continued to 
render extremely important services to his country, by the careful collec¬ 
tion and transmission of very valuable vegetables, and of still more valua¬ 
ble facts, at a great sacrifice of wealth, labor, and health, which could not 
be compensated by the price in money of a township of our most fertile 
soils. 
10. That, for some testimonials of some portion of his services, your me¬ 
morialist most respectfully refers to the aforesaid coiigressionai pamphlets, 
headed Doc. No. 19S and Rep. No. 454 of the 1st session of the 22d Con¬ 
gress; to such of his subsequent communications and accompanying docu¬ 
ments as may have reached the files of the' Departments of State, of the 
Treasury, and of the Navy; and to such others as may have appeared in 
the pages of the periodicals of agriculture, of medicine, and of science ; 
but that as many letters have been destroyed by accident, and by desis^n, 
on their passage to the.United States and as serious sickness has been 
the continued result of his extraordinary services to the people of Campea- 
chy during the horrible cholera of June and July, 1833, a much greater 
amount of valuable information must be buried with his shattered frame 
in a foreign land, unless he can soon Require the hreans of rendering fit 
ipeful in his native country ; yet, that it will nevertheless be found by such 
limited documents alone as may appear,before a committee of Congress, 
that your memorialist is the only American consul who has entire¬ 
ly devoted his heart, mind, and body towards the introduction and accli¬ 
mation of tropical plants; and that his zeal, patience, and perseverance 
in the pursuit, under the almost incredible obstacles interposed by man, na¬ 
ture, and Providence, will prove that Te pre-eminently possesses the pas¬ 
sion and the power of persisting in his purposes to promote the prosperity 
of the public by propagating productive, profitable, perennial plants. 
11. That your memorialist especially refers to his letter of the 12th of 
September, 1833, to the Secretary of the Treasury, for a list, of the prin¬ 
cipal plants .whose seeds, roots, and shoots he had then forwarded to south¬ 
ern Florida in the nine previous months alone, through all the additional 
obstacles interposed by thd destructive choleras of Havana, New Orleans 
and Campeachy ; embracing many species of valuable vegetables which 
yield very farinaceous roots, liighly delicious fruits, celebrated healthy 
beverages, peculiarly precious .oils, permanent colors, grateful odors, nar¬ 
cotic leaves, capsular fibres, cortical fibres, and foliaceous fibres and that 
he has continued his endeavors to increase the numbers and varieties there, 
up to the present date, as far as possible, during merely brief intervals of 
disease, for the collection of plants, and 'with only occasional opportuni¬ 
ties, by indirect routes, for the transmission of them from the periinsula of 
Yucatan to the peninsula of Florida. 
