1Enclosure: Petition from Merchants and Citizens of Maine, 29 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State for the United States. The Petition of the Subscribers, Merchants and Others, citizens of the United States, in the District of Maine, Humbly shews: That many of the inhabitants of this District, labor under great inconveniencies for want of a more general circulation of the Laws of the United States: none being published in said District;...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Freeman, 1 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
Considering it of the utmost importance that a knowledge of the Laws of the United States should be generally circulated—and that they are printed in no part of this extensive and increasing District (the District of Maine) I readily joined in an Application to you Sir, which I signed yesterday requesting that they might be printed in the Gazette of Maine . As the Gentlemen who have signed the...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Freeman, 11 May 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received yesterday the honour of your letter of the 1st. inst. covering an application from a number of the inhabitants of Portland to have the laws of the Union published in the gazette of that place, and think it my duty to give them the earliest explanation of the footing on which the law has placed those publications. The act of Congress makes it the duty of the Secretary of state, on...