He observes to those who do him the honor
of addressing themselves to him on this subject, that the laws for the
authentication of foreign writings are not the same through all the
United States, some requiring an authentication under the seal of the
_Prevote_ of a city, and others admitting that of a Notary: but that
writings authenticated in both these manners, will, under the one or the
other, be admitted in most, if not all of the United States. It would
seem advisable, then, to furnish them with this double authentication.
LETTER CLXXV.--TO DOCTOR GILMER, December 16, 1788
TO DOCTOR GILMER.
Paife, December 16, 1788.
Dear Doctor,
Your last letter of December the 23rd was unlucky, like the former one,
in arriving while I was absent on a call of public business in Holland.
I was discouraged from answering the law part of it on my return,
because I foresaw such a length of time between the date of that and
receipt of the answer, as would give it the air of a prescription after
the death of the patient. I hope the whole affair is settled, and that
you are established in good titles to all the lands.
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