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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 
America in Congress assembled : 
•The memorial of Henry Perrine, Doctor of Medicine, &c., and American 
consul at Campeacliy, in Yucatan, respectfully sheweth : 
1. That, on the 6th day of February, 1832, your memorialist respect¬ 
fully directed from the city of New York, to your honorable assembly, a 
memorial in favor of the domestication of tropical plants in southern Flor¬ 
ida, Avhich resulted in the printed pamphlets of the 1st session of the 22d 
Congress, headed Doc. 198 ; Rep. 4,54; and H. R. 555, A bill to encour¬ 
age the introduction and promote the cultivation of tropical plants in the 
United States.’’ 
2. That said bill, conveying to your memorialist and his associates a 
township of land in southern Florida, on the condition that every sec¬ 
tion should be forfeited if at least one-fourth thereof should not be occu¬ 
pied and successfully cultivated in tropical and other exotic plants with¬ 
in five yea7's, was reported on the 26th day of April, 1832, “ read twice, 
I . and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.;” which 
^ period has not yet arrived : and'that, therefore, on this 29th day of De¬ 
cember, 1834, he most,respectfully directs, from the city of Campeachy, this 
supplementary memorial, to solicit that, during the actual,session of Con¬ 
gress, the said bill may become a law, with such modifications as wisdom 
and justice may suggest. 
3. That,'as your honorable assembly has repeatedly granted, on certain 
terms, to various foreigners and their associates, different tracts of produc¬ 
tive soils in settled districts of sovereigil States, to encourage single ob¬ 
jects of very partial utility; and as your memorialist now. solicits merely 
an act of sale, on similar terms, to a native American and his associates, 
of an equivalent portion of unproductive lands in the desert extremity of 
a subject Territory, to encourage many objects of-very extensive utility, 
embraced in the most important enterprise ever proposed by an humble 
citizen of the United States to promote the prosperity of his country; and 
as the delay or advance of a single year, in the great geometrical repro¬ 
duction of valuable tropical vegetables to supply the first seeds and plants 
for new staples especially on steril or ruined soils, and by 
a poor or feeble population, is of incalculable importance to a distressed 
agricultural community, he entertains the respectful hope that the modifi¬ 
cation and passage of the bill aforesaid will not be any longer delayed. 
4. That, as southern Florida is not yet surveyed nor offered for sale, 
and as many portions of its surface are covered with conflicting claims, a 
special act of Congress is absolutely essential to ensure the right and safe¬ 
ty of location to any individual in any part of its tropical territory ; and 
I that hence your memorialist cannot, in any other, way, obtain a safe title 
to any land ior himself and associates, or the indirect power to com¬ 
bine strength of co-operation with perseverance of pursuit and unity of 
design in the introduction and cultivation of very productive tropical 
plants. 
5. That, as both the Government and the people of the United States 
have hitherto considered southern Florida to be a sickly and steril ter¬ 
ritory, in consequence of the infindated swamps of the interior, and of the 
arid sands of the coasts, and hence unworthy of even the trouble and ex- 
