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The account for the amount paid Charles L. Daveis, Esq. the "agent appointed by the Executive of this State" in 1827, to inquire into and report upon certain facts relating to aggressions upon the rights of the State of Maine and of individual citizens thereof, by inhabitants of the Province of New Brunswick", was, at the request of my predecessor presented to the Hon. W. V. Preble to the Executive of the Unites States for allowance, and an answer was received from the Secretary of State dated the thirty first of April last", stating that he had been directed by the President to say, that there cannot be a doubt that the expense was properly incurred and ought to be defrayed by the government of the United States. But inasmuch as the contingent fund applicable to these expenses, for that year was very limited, it would not be practicable to pay this account, which is properly chargeable against the expenses of a former year". We may therefore expect the payment as soon as the present Congress shall make the necessary appropriation.