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409. The trial of Amos Broad and his wife, on three several indictments for assaulting and beating Betty, a slave, and her little female child Sarah, aged three years : had at the Court of Special Sessions of the Peace, held in and for the city and county of New-York, at the City-hall, of the said city, on Tuesday, the 28th day of February, 1809 : present, the Hon. Pierre C. Van Wyck, recorder, Peter Mesier and James Drake, Esquires, aldermen : to which is added, the motion of counsel in Mr. Broad's behalf, to mitigate the imprisonment of his person, and impose a fine, and the reply of Mr. Sampson : also, the prayer or invocation of Mr. Broad, to the court, for mercy, and the address of His Honor, the recorder, on passing sentence on the defendants.

422. Minutes of the Proceedings of the thirteenth American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and Improving the Condition of the African Race : assembled at Philadelphia, on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and continued by adjournments until the sixteenth day of the same month, inclusive.

446. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the acting Secretary of State, in compliance with a resolution of twenty-fourth October last, requesting the President of the United States to lay before the Senate (provided he shall not consider the same improper to be communicated) the proof of any traffic carried on in the West Indies, by the sale of Negroes, taken from the United States, by the British forces since the present war : March 2, 1815 : printed by order of the Senate of the United States.

460. Horrors of slavery : in two parts. Part I. Containing observations, facts, and arguments, extracted from the speeches of Wilberforce, Grenville, Pitt, Burke, Fox, Martin, Whitbread, and other distinguished members of the British Parliament. Part II. Containing extracts, chiefly American, compiled from authentic sources; demonstrating that slavery is impolitic, antirepublican, unchristian, and highly criminal; and proposing measures for its complete abolition through the United States

473. A memoir presented to the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race, December 11th, 1818 : containing some remarks upon the civil dissentions of the hitherto afflicted people of Hayti, as the inhabitants of that island may be connected with plans for the emigration of such free persons of colour as may be disposed to remove to it, in case its reunion, pacification and independence should be established. : Together with some account of the origin and progress of the efforts for effecting the abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania and its neighbourhood, and throughout the world

489. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury : transmitting the information called for, by the resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 4th instant, in relation to ships engaged in the slave trade, which have been seized and condemned, and the disposition which has been made of the Negroes, by the several state governments, under whose jurisdiction they have fallen.

490. Message from the president of the United States, stating the interpretation which has been given to the act entitled "An act in addition to the acts prohibiting the slave trade." : December 20, 1819 : read, and referred to the committee on so much of the message of the President of the United States as relates to the unlawful introduction of slaves into the United States.