MR. LIVINGSTON'S MOTION. 20TH FEBRUARY, 1800. COMMITTED TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE, TO WHOM WAS COMMITTED ON THE 7TH INSTANT, THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT, TRANSMITTING THE PAPERS, RELATIVE TO THE REQUISITION FOR, AND DELIVERY OF JONATHAN ROBBINS. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
[Philadelphia: 1800]. 4pp, disbound and moderately foxed. Good+. Representative Livingston of New York would later become a Louisiana Congressman and a leader of the legal codification movement. Robbins claimed American citizenship by virtue of his birth in Danbury, Connecticut; he had allegedly participated in a mutiny aboard the British frigate..... More