The undersigned has the honor to renew to Mr. Livingston the assurances
of his distinguished consideration.
CHARLES BANKHEAD.
[Footnote 15: Omitted.]
_Mr. Livingston to Mr. Bankhead_.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
_Washington, October 17, 1831_.
CHARLES BANKHEAD, Esq., etc.
SIR: Immediately after receiving your note of the 1st instant I wrote to
the governor of the State of Maine for information on the subject of it.
I have just received his answer, of which I have the honor to inclose
two extracts.[16] By the first you will perceive that the election of
town officers in the settlement of Madawaska, of which complaint was
made in the papers inclosed in your letter, was made under color of
a general law, which was not intended by either the executive or
legislative authority of that State to be executed in that settlement,
and that the whole was the work of inconsiderate individuals.
By the second extract it will appear that the individuals said to have
been most prominent in setting up the authority of the State have been
arrested by order of the lieutenant-governor of the Province of New
Brunswick, and were on their way to be imprisoned at Frederickton.
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