" And your memorialists represent that, under a sense of the importance of the trust reposed in them, and deeply solicitous to procure this valuable addition to the materials now under their control, they consider it make known to your honorable body that their their duty to means are inadequate to undertake the expense attendant thereon. And they represent further that, even if they did possess the means, they do not believe they could, in their own name, accomplish this object. The inspection of the archives of governments and the documents in public offices is not granted on the application of individuals, or even of private associations, but only on the request of a high power. " And your memorialists represent that an inspection of the said documents, letters,

correspondences and papers would be permitted, and copies thereof granted, upon formal application for that purpose, made in the name and by the authority of this State. Your memorialists entertain the belief, from the fact that such permission has been granted on the application of other States of our Confederacy ; and that an Agent appointed for that purpose by the State of Georgia is now in London, receiving every facility from the Departments of the English government.

Xa GENERAL INTRODUCTION. " And your memorialists represent tliat the present is a most favorable moment for such an application. It is a season of general peace, and great good feeling between our respective governments ; and opportunities and facilities are now afforded, in a spirit of tlie most