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Rh passed allowing a Salary to the Attorney-General of the Territory adequate to the important services which are rendered by that officer to the United States as well as to the Territory.

Your memorialists are well aware that the consideration of the numerous objects contemplated by this memorial will require more time than can well be spared from the important and general concenis of the Union, but when they reflect upon their neglected and orphan-like Situation they are emboldened to hope that their wants and wishes will meet with all the indulgence and attention necessary to secure to them the relief which is so essential to their welfare and happiness.

Done at Vincennes in the Indiana Territory the twenty-eighth day of December in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Two, and of the Independence of the United States the Twenty-Seventh.

By order of the Convention. , President, & Delegate from the County of Knox Teste: John Rice Jones,
 * Secretary

 December 28, 1802 Indiana Historical Society Publications, II, 470

In Convention, Vincennes, Indiana Territory To The Honorable, The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States:

Sir—The people of the Indiana Territory, having by their representatives in general convention assembled, determined to suspend, for a term of years, the operation of the sixth article of Compact between the United States and the people of the Territory, I have the honor herewith to inclose you for the information of the house of Representatives, the instrument declaratory of their consent. I have the honor to be, with perfect respect. Sir, , President, and Delegate from the County of Knox(By order of the Convention)