On 15 Nov., the House of Representatives issued a resolution requesting that the president submit any documents in his possession regarding the case of Zachariah Cox (coxe). Cox gained notoriety during the 1790s for his controversial western settlement schemes. On 2 Nov. 1803, he submitted a memorial to the House, protesting his arrest and confinement in 1798 at Natchez by the U.S. army while he was ostensibly on a mercantile voyage to New Orleans. Cox fled to New Orleans, where he learned from the Spanish governor that he had been accused of being the leader of a “lawless banditti” and that federal and territorial officials were demanding his extradition. Returning to the United States, Cox was arrested in Nashville and incarcerated for almost three months “without any charge, crime, or offence being alleged against him.” In addition, he claimed that federal officers had seized some $9,000 worth of property from him at Natchez (Isaac Joslin Cox and Reginald C. McGrane, eds., “Documents Relating to Zachariah Cox,” Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, 8 [1913], 31-114; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1832-61, 38 vols. description ends , Miscellaneous, 1:361-2; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1826, 9 vols. description ends , 4:434-5, 444-5; Vol. 22:29-30).