[1428] Ib. 11.
[1429] Ib.
[1430] Ib. 29-32.
[1431] Ib. 92.
[1432] Ib. 144.
[1433] Harper's opinion bears, opposite his signature, this statement: "Considered at New-York August 3d, 1796." Beyond all doubt it had been submitted to Hamilton—perhaps prepared in collaboration with him. Harper was himself a member of one of the purchasing companies and in the House he later defended the transaction. (See Annals, 5th Cong. 2d Sess. 1277.)
[1434] Harper, 16.
[1435] Ib. 14.
[1436] Ib. 49-50.
[1437] Ib. 50. Here Harper quotes Hamilton's opinion.