[85] House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 42, pp. 10-11. 
      Cf.  Report of the House Committee, Jan. 10, 1818:  “It is but
      too notorious that numerous infractions of the law prohibiting
      the importation of slaves into the United States have been
      perpetrated with impunity upon our southern frontier.” Amer. 
      State Papers, Miscellaneous, II.  No. 441.

 [86] Special message of Jan. 13, 1818:  House Journal, 15
      Cong. 1 sess. pp. 137-9.

 [87] Collector McIntosh, of the District of Brunswick, Ga., to
      the Secretary of the Treasury. House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess. 
      III.  No. 42, pp. 8-9.

 [88] House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 42, pp. 6-7.

 [89] Ibid., pp. 11-12.

 [90] Amer.  State Papers, Miscellaneous, II.  No. 529.

 [91] House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 42, p. 7.

 [92] Ibid., p. 6.

 [93] House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348, p. 82.

 [94] They were not general instructions, but were directed to
      Commander Campbell.  Cf. House Doc., 15 Cong. 2 sess.  IV.  No.
      84, pp. 5-6.

 [95] Statutes at Large, III. 471 ff.

 [96] House Doc., 15 Cong. 2 sess.  VI.  No. 107, pp. 8-9.

 [97] Ibid., IV.  No. 84.  Cf.  Chew’s letters in House
      Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348.

 [98] House Doc., 15 Cong. 1 sess.  II.  No. 12, pp. 22, 38; 15
      Cong. 2 sess.  VI.  No. 100, p. 13; 16 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No.
      42, p. 9, etc.; House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No.
      348, p. 85.

 [99] House Doc., 15 Cong. 2 sess.  VI.  No. 107, pp. 8-9.

[100] House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 348, p. 77.

[101] Cf. House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess.  III.  No. 42, p. 11: 
      “The Grand Jury found true bills against the owners of the
      vessels, masters, and a supercargo—­all of whom are
      discharged; why or wherefore I cannot say, except that it
      could not be for want of proof against them.”

[102] E.g., in July, 1818, one informer “will have to leave
      that part of the country to save his life”:  Ibid., 15 Cong.
      2 sess.  VI.  No. 100, p. 9.

[103] Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury, to Hon. W.H. 
      Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury:  Ibid., 15 Cong. 2 sess. 
      VI.  No. 107, p. 5.

[104] The slaves on the “Constitution” were not condemned, for
      the technical reason that she was not captured by a
      commissioned officer of the United States navy.

[105] These proceedings are very obscure, and little was said
      about them.  The Spanish claimants were, it was alleged with
      much probability, but representatives of Americans.  The claim
      was paid under the provisions of the Treaty of Florida, and
      included slaves whom the court afterward declared forfeited.