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The Secretary of State

Gentlemen,

As you are about to meet another business, it is my desire that you would take the enclosed application into consideration.

__It is not my wish on one hand, to shren unnecessary obstacles in the way of gratifying the wishes of the applicant__on the other it is incumbent on me to proceed with regularity. __Would not the [undecipherable]ting of a Patent then, which I believe is always the concluding act of predicated on the Survey (as an essential document) have too much the appearance of placing the Cart before the Horse. __ And does not the Law [undecipherable] something on the Attorney General of the U. States [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable]nature of the President?

__Whatever be done with property I am willing to do. More I ought not to do.

G Washington

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