Notice to French Claimants of 1900
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TNHE Claimants in this State, are informed that a


Il General Convention of the Claimants will assemble
at the Athenenm, No. 34S Broadway, New York ION
Wednesday the 29th instant, 10 O'Clock, A M. in
which. it requested that every claim be represented
possibe-hat united and firm, but respectful de-
mand may agaa be made upon Congress, to give said
claims fair hearing upon their merits in view of that
command of the Constitution (and which every Senator
and Representative swears 10 obey not to tax pro-
perty for the public without paying the for


The sufferers in this State, who plunered of some


$500 900 of therproperty than 40 years ago, by
France, to indemnify herself for the non-executon by
the United States Of those Treaties which obtaRed
the aid of the French Arms and French Fleets in
Revolutionary War-and whoss just claims to pay
ment for their property, afterwards given up to
that power, by Government, for National
lease from said Treaty sPulaons, and eeby purchas-
ed for the United States pubic benefit of priceless
value, have been suffered go down to the grave in
poverty; have their widows children been paid
the first dollar for their losses and than a-the
sixteen eighteen able Reports that Committees of
Congress have made urging the justice and Constitution
al obligation of payment of said Claims by the United
States have been lodged, without full and fair hear
ing aud direct vote upon them. This practical repU
didtOn by Congress, must be wiped from the National
brow-by giving fair hearing and constitutional de-
cison else by giving the right to try, before the
Supreme Court of the United States, the obligations of
our Government to pay our said Claims. s7>*


By request ofthe Central Committee of Claimants.


r"- JOS. B. HINTON.


Raleigh, Oct %, 1915. 572-It.