...1798, he obtained from the Legislature of that State an act which, on the suggestion that " Fitch was dead or had withdrawn from the State without having made any attempt to use his privilege." repealed the grant to him and conferred a similar privilege on Livingston for...

...whereas it was further suggested that John Fitch was either dead or had withdrawn himself from this state, without having made any attempt, in the space of more than ten years, of executing the plan for which he so obtained the exclusive privilege, whereby the same was justly...