817, Dec. 2. President Monroe's Message on Amelia Island, etc.~

"A just regard for the rights and interests of the United States
required that they [i.e., the Amelia Island and Galveston pirates]
should be suppressed, and orders have been accordingly issued to that
effect. The imperious considerations which produced this measure will be
explained to the parties whom it may, in any degree, concern." _House
Journal_, 15 Cong. 1 sess. p. 11.

~1817, Dec. 19. Georgia: Act to Dispose of Illegally Imported Slaves.~

"An Act for disposing of any such negro, mulatto, or person of color,
who has been or may hereafter be imported or brought into this State in
violation of an act of the United States, entitled an act to prohibit
the importation of slaves," etc.

Sec. 1. The governor by agent shall receive such Negroes, and,

Sec. 2. sell them, or,

Sec. 3. give them to the Colonization Society to be transported, on
condition that the Society reimburse the State for all expense, and
transport them at their own cost. Prince, _Digest_, p. 793.

~1818, Jan. 10. Congress (House): Bill to Supplement Act of 1807.~

Mr. Middleton, from the committee on so much of the President's Message
as related to the illicit introduction of slaves into the United States
from Amelia Island, reported a bill in addition to former acts
prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the United States. This was
read twice and committed; April 1 it was considered in Committee of the
Whole; Mr. Middleton offered a substitute, which was ordered to be laid
on table and to be printed; it became the Act of 1819. See below, March
3, 1819. _House Journal_, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 131, 410.

~1818, Jan. 13. President Monroe's Special Message.~

"I have the satisfaction to inform Congress, that the establishment at
Amelia Island has been suppressed, and without the effusion of blood.
The papers which explain this transaction, I now lay before Congress,"
etc. _Ibid._, pp. 137-9.

~1818, Feb. 9. Congress (Senate): Bill to Register (?) Slaves.~

"A bill respecting the transportation of persons of color, for sale, or
to be held to labor." Passed Senate, dropped in House; similar bill Dec.
9, 1818, also dropped in House. _Senate Journal_, 15 Cong. 1 sess. pp.
147, 152, 157, 165, 170, 188, 201, 203, 232, 237; 15 Cong. 2 sess. pp.
63, 74, 77, 202, 207, 285, 291, 297; _House Journal_, 15 Cong. 1 sess.
p. 332; 15 Cong. 2 sess. pp. 303, 305, 316.

~1818, Apr