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Excerpt from Report of the Committee Appointed by the House of Representatives, to Inquire Into the Conduct of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Read, February 16, 1820 Your committee are utterly unable to perceive, in this state ment of facts, any thing derogatory to the official integrity or personal worth of the chief magistrate. They, indeed, per ceive him contributing to facilitate the mercantile arrange ments of a brother, by fortifying with his guarantee, a credit which, without it, 'in all probability, would have been obtained; and they perceive the probability, that his brother's creditors may ultimately resort to him for payment, has been rendered less remote, in consequence of the events which suddenly en ve10ped the commercial scenes of Baltimore, during the sum mer of 1819, in gloom and disaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.