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Rh Your Memorialist therefore prays, that a law may be passed, authorizing and requiring the Superintendant of Indian Affairs or other persons empowered to issue Licences to Indian Traders, within the Indiana Territory, to receive for each Licence issued, such a Sum for the Use of the said Territory, as in your wisdom may be thought reasonable. And your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c— Indiana Territory

A Resolution requesting the Governor to make application to congress for the purposes therein mentioned Published at Vincennes the seventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and three, by William Henry Harrison Governor and Thomas T. Davis and Henry Vander Burgh Judges in and over the said Territory. Whereas in the present circumstances of this Territory the revenue is inadequate to the necessary expences thereof. And Whereas the Territory frequently incurs expences by reason of prosecuting on behalf of the United States, to defray which, there is no provision by any law of the United States. Resolved that the Governor be and is hereby requested to make application to Congress for leave to impose a reasonable tax, yearly, on all persons trading with the Indian tribes within this Territory to and for the use thereof. The foregoing is hereby declared to be a law of the Territory and to take effect accordingly. In Testimony whereof we, William Henry Harrison, Thomas T. Davis and Henry Vander Burgh have caused the seal of the Territory to be thereunto affixed and signed the same with our names. Willm Henry Harrison Thomas Terry Davis Henry Vander Burgh I do hereby certify that the above is a true Copy of the Original on file in the office of the Secretary of the Indiana Territory. for Secretary John Gibson Jun, .