1. The enclosures (4 pp.; docketed by Wagner) are copies of (1) the 17 Mar. 1806 protest of David Davies before New Orleans notary John Lynd that on 2 Mar. 1806 he sailed from New Orleans in the schooner Ann from Bayou St. John bound for Fort St. Stephen with salt and provisions for use of the troops there; that on arrival at Mobile he informed commandant Francisco Maximilian de St. Maxent that he was bound to Fort St. Stephen with public stores; that St. Maxent said he could not pass; that Davies petitioned St. Maxent for permission to proceed, but his petition had been returned with a note in the margin saying that permission could not be granted; that he again petitioned St. Maxent asking why he had been refused to which he had received the reply that it was not Davies’s business, but Governor Claiborne’s; that in conversation St. Maxent had stated that it was only by his goodwill and that of former commandants that Americans had been allowed passage; that he had lately learned that the Americans did not choose to be accommodating, so he had decided to retaliate; and that Davies had returned to New Orleans with the ship to protest, declaring that any injuries sustained by ship and cargo were not through his negligence or default; (2) Davies’s first 8 Mar. 1806 petition (in Spanish) asking permission to pass, with St. Maxent’s refusal in the margin; and (3) Davies’s second 8 Mar. petition (in Spanish) requesting St. Maxent’s reasons for refusal so that Davies could collect freight for the ship and satisfy the owners of the cargo.