Excerpt from Report of the Case of the Commonwealth, Vs; Tench Coxe, Esq., On a Motion for a Mandamus, in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: Taken From the Manuscript of the Fourth Volume of Mr. Dallas's Reports As the difpenfation Contained in the provifo, was to operate only in the cafe of an exilling warfare, it was flated, in the difcuffion of the prefent cafe, that, in fact, ho ilities between the United States, and the Indians, were never fo entirely difcontinued, from the period of the revolutionary conteil, until General Wayne's treaty in the year 1795, as to render it practicable with fafety, to make aetua} fet tlements upon the lands in quellion. The polition was fhewn hillori cally, from the military operations of the federal and {late govern ments judicially from the opinions of the courts of juflice and ext; perimentally from the evidence of difmterefied individuals. Thus. 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."