[84] By the secret Joint Resolution and Act of 1811 (Statutes at Large, III. 471), Congress gave the President power to suppress the Amelia Island establishment, which was then notorious. The capture was not accomplished until 1817.
[85] House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 42, pp. 10–11. Cf. Report of the House Committee, Jan. 10, 1818: "It is but too notorious that numerous infractions of the law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States have been perpetrated with impunity upon our southern frontier." Amer. State Papers, Miscellaneous, II. No. 441.
[86] Special message of Jan. 13, 1818: House Journal, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 137–9.
[87] Collector McIntosh, of the District of Brunswick, Ga., to the Secretary of the Treasury. House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 42, pp. 8–9.
[88] House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 42, pp. 6–7.
[89] Ibid., pp. 11–12.
[90] Amer. State Papers, Miscellaneous, II. No. 529.
[91] House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 42, p. 7.
[92] Ibid., p. 6.
[93] House Reports, 21 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 348, p. 82.