Letter from Governor George M. Troup in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Joel Crawford, Richard Blount, and E. Hamilton of the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission.
In the letter Troup discusses the conflict between Georgia and Alabama over the boundary, including the extra commissioner Alabama appointed. He approves the report that Crawford, Blount, and Hamilton submitted; warns that they "will have to encounter very unworthy & ungenerous passions&quo...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | In the letter Troup discusses the conflict between Georgia and Alabama over the boundary, including the extra commissioner Alabama appointed. He approves the report that Crawford, Blount, and Hamilton submitted; warns that they "will have to encounter very unworthy & ungenerous passions" regarding the survey; and recommends that they ask the Alabama commissioners to share in the expense of the project: "As the expense attendant in this work will be very considerable permit me to suggest the propriety (particularly if you should not have reason to be satisfied with the conduct of the Gentlemen composing the other Commission) to call their attention to the propriety of assuming or recognizing a certain proportion of it to be measured by the ratio of the stake which they really have in it or that which they seemed willing to have." A transcription is included. |
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