WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 11, 1808.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, _to wit_: January 11, 1808.
Personally appeared before me, William Cranch, chief judge of
the circuit court of the District of Columbia, Daniel Clark,
Esq., who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of
Almighty God, doth depose and say, that the foregoing statement
made by him, under the order of the House of Representatives,
so far as regards matters of his own knowledge, is true, and so
far as regards the matters whereof he was informed by others,
he believes to be true.