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NOTICE OF CONTEST OF ELECTION OF JONATHAN SCHEIFFELIN.2
days of instant October, as being one amongst the number of three having the greatest number of votes and the points which I shall rely upon to defeat your obtaining a seat in the house are, first. That you are not a citizen of the United States, but a subject of his Britanic Majesty. I cannot conseive, sir, that you can arrogate yourself the right of remaining here a citizen of the United States and of filling a seat in our Legislature under (what you call) the taut implications of our Treaty with the
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