[1] If conforming to this desire of other nations, we adopt the second pendulum, ³?/?₁₀ of that for our foot will be the same as ? or, ²?/?₁₀ of the second rod, because that rod is to the pendulum as 3 to 2. This would make our foot ¼ inch less than the present one.

[2] It was found page 41.

[3] The constitution controlling the common law in this particular.

[4] e. g. The immaculate conception of Jesus, his deification, the creation of the world by him, his miraculous powers, his resurrection and visible ascension, his corporeal presence in the Eucharist, the Trinity, original sin, atonement, regeneration, election, orders of Hierarchy, &c.

[5] I believe by Athenasius and the council of Nicea.

[6] Ocellus de d'Argens, p. 97.

[7] Enfield, vi. 3.

[8] Ib. 105.

[9] TimÆus, 17. Enfield, vi. 3.

[10] Hist. des Saints, 2 c. 4 p. 212, 215.

[11] Ocellus, 90.

[12] That of Athanasius and the Council of NicÆa, anno. 324.

[13] January 16, 1814.

[14] Since the date of this letter, a most important and valuable edition has been published of Coke's First Institute. The editor, Thomas, has analyzed the whole work, and re-composed its matter in the order of Blackstone's Commentaries, not omitting a sentence of Lord Coke's text, nor inserting one not his. In notes, under the text, he has given the modern decisions relating to the same subjects, rendering it thus as methodical, lucid, easy and agreeable to the reader as Blackstone, and more precise and profound. It can now be no longer doubted that this is the very best elementary work for a beginner in the study of the law. It is not, I suppose, to be had in this State, and questionable if in the North, as yet, and it is dear, costing in England four guineas or nineteen dollars, to which add the duty here on imported books, which, on the three volumes 8vo, is something more than three dollars, or one dollar the 8vo volume. This is a tax on learned readers to support printers for the readers of "The Delicate Distress, and The Wild Irish Boy".

[15] The clergy of the United States may probably be estimated at eight thousand. The residue of this society at four hundred; but if the former number be halved, the reasoning will be the same.

[16] See Buttman's Datives, p. 230, every one of which I should consider as under the accident or relation called Ablative, having no signification of approach according to his definition of the Dative.

[17] Address lost.

[18] Address lost.

[19] Address lost.

[20] See under head of "Miscellaneous Papers," the paper here alluded to, entitled, "The solemn Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the principles of the Constitution of the United States of America, and on the violations of them."

[21] Address lost.

[23] See Vol. I. p. 162.

[24] [At a later period, upon reviewing this opinion, the following note was appended by Mr. Jefferson.—Ed.—viz.] "Unless with the consent or default of the other contracting party. It may well be doubted, too, and perhaps denied, that the treaty power can control a law. The question here proposed was then of the first impression. Subsequent investigations have proved that the contrary position is the more general truth."

[25] See No. 1 accompanying this report.

[26] Though the Constitution controls the laws of Mortmain so far as to permit Congress itself to hold land for certain purposes, yet not so far as to permit them to communicate a similar right to other corporate bodies.

[27] Mr. Short is desired to purchase this book at Amsterdam, or Paris, as he may not find it at Madrid, and when it shall have answered the purposes of this mission, let it be sent here for the use of the Secretary of State's office.

[28] Rivers belong to the public, that is to say to the Roman people.

[29] "The use of the banks belong also to the public by the laws of nations, as the use of the river itself does. Therefore, every one is free to moor his vessel to the bank, to fasten his cables to the trees growing on it, to deposit the cargo of his vessel in those places in like manner as every one is free to navigate the river itself."

[30] "The use of the shores also belongs to the public, or is under the law of nations, as is that of the sea itself. Therefore it is, that those who choose, have a right to build huts there, into which they may betake themselves."

[31] "Nobody, therefore, is prohibited from landing on the sea shore, walking there, or mooring their vessel there, so nevertheless that they keep out of the villas, that is, the habitations, monuments, and public buildings, erected there, and do them no injury."

[32] "The most favored nation."

[33] April 12, 1792.