Your Petitioner hath successfully opposed the said Rumsey in his applications to the said Assemblies, and hath hitherto preserved his Rights inviolate, the report of the Committee of Seven leading Members of the honorable Assembly of Pennsylvania, after a debate of five days, supported on the side of M'". Rumsey by an eminent Attorney at Law, your Petitioner begs leave to annex herewith. Since which he has made two fruitless attempts to destroy my just and legal Rights in the state of Delaware and New Jersey;

In Virginia your petitioner hath also obtained an exclusive Right being the State in which said Rumsey resided, without the least opposition from him or any of his friends, notwithstanding from my first petitioning that Assembly, to obtaining the Law was more than one Year and Eleven Months, your Petitioner hath not hitherto been informed whether he has made application in that State or not, but doubts not from the justness and stability of that honourable J^ody that they will not take his just Rights from him without healing the defence of your Petitioner.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays, that in case a Petition should be presented by the said attorney, which may interfere wdth your Petitioner's Rights, either in the Steam Boat or the Pipe ]'jo;ler, so long in use in your Petitioners Boat on the River J3e!aware and a Machine necessary for the completion of that design for which your Law was given, he humbly prays to be heard in the defence of his Rights. Your petitioner is perfectly willing to rest the justice of his claim, either before your honourable House or before the New Congress, if your honourable House should judge it most expedient to refer the same to them.