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Communication from Benjamin W. Leigh, Virginia Commissioner to the State of Kentucky, to Virginia Governor Randolph. Included in this correspondence are a number of other documents, including resolutions from the Kentucky General Assembly and select committee, and various agreements and stipulations between Leigh and his Kentucky counterpart, Henry Clay
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Concerns land granted by Virginia as rewards for revolutionary services
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Accompanying documents: No. 1. Copy of a letter of B.W. Leigh, to the governor of Kentucky (Frankfort, May 8, 1822) -- No. 2. In the House of Representatives, May 14, 1822 ... / R.S. Todd, C.H.R. -- No. 3. Resolutions providing for the appointment of commissioners under the eighth article of the compact with Virginia -- No. 4. Frankfort, Executive Office, May 30th, 1822 / John Adair -- No. 5. Certain points of difference and dispute having arisen between the states of Virginia and Kentucky, concerning the construction, effect and execution of the compact between the two states, contained in the act of the legislature of Virginia, passed on the 18th day of December 1789, entitled, "an act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent state;" and both states being desirous, by an amicable settlement of the differences and disputes, to preserve the good understanding which has happily always existed between them; ... / [commissioners] B. Clay, B.W. Leigh -- No. 6. The states of Virginia and Kentucky, having by their respective commissioners, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, and Henry Clay, this day entered into a convention, making certain arrangements and stipulations for organizing a board of commissioners to determine all matters of complaint or dispute between them, arising under the act of the 18th day of December, 1789 ... / [commissioners] B.W. Leigh, H. Clay.
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