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LETTER LII.--TO GEORGE HAY, June 19,1807


TO GEORGE HAY.

Washington, June 19,1807.

Dear Sir,

Yours of the 17th was received last night. Three blank pardons had been
(as I expect) made up and forwarded by the mail of yesterday, and I have
desired three others to go by that of this evening. You ask what is to
be done if Bollman finally rejects his pardon, and the Judge decides
it to have no effect? Move to commit him immediately for treason or
misdemeanor, as you think the evidence will support; let the court
decide where he shall be sent for trial; and on application, I will have
the marshal aided in his transportation, with the executive means. And
we think it proper, further, that when Burr shall have been convicted of
either treason or misdemeanor, you should immediately have committed all
those persons against whom you should find evidence sufficient, whose
agency has been so prominent as to mark them as proper objects of
punishment, and especially where their boldness has betrayed an
inveteracy of criminal disposition. As to obscure offenders and
repenting ones, let them lie for consideration.