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A PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR AND JUDGES OF THE TERRITORY OF
MICHIGAN. 6
But unluckily for the petitioners, this charter (if it has ever existed) seems to have been lost, either by time or accident, or it has been carried away amongst the archives of some one of the ancient governments and transported to some distant country whence the petitioners cannot obtain it; but it is to be hoped and believed that this cannot be prejudicial to the rights of the petitioners, for they have been taught to believe that the rigid and inflexible principles of the common law supply a
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