M. VAN BUREN.

[Footnote 75: Transmitting correspondence with France, Sweden, Denmark,

and Prussia relating to the surrender to the United States of persons

charged with piracy and murder on board the United States schooner

_Plattsburg_ in 1817; correspondence relating to the demand by the

chargé d'affaires of Great Britain for the surrender of a mutineer in

the British armed ship _Lee_ in 1819; opinion of the Attorney-General

with regard to the right of the President of the United States or the

governor of a State to deliver up, on the demand of any foreign

government, persons charged with crimes committed without the

jurisdiction of the United States.]

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