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[1147] Act of April 6, 1808, _Laws of New York, 1807-09_, 313-15.

[1148] 4 Johnson's _Chancery Reports_, 51, 53.

[1149] _Ib._ 152.

[1150] _Ib._ 154.

[1151] Act of Feb. 18, 1793, _U.S. Statutes at Large_, I, 305-18.

[1152] 4 Johnson's _Chancery Reports_, 156.

[1153] 9 Johnson, 507 _et seq._

[1154] 4 Johnson's _Chancery Reports_, 158-59.

[1155] 17 Johnson, 488 _et seq._

[1156] See _supra_, 240-50, 284-86.

[1157] Story to Fettyplace, Feb. 28, 1821, Story, I, 397.

[1158] Records Supreme Court, MS.

[1159] The case was first docketed, June 7, 1820, as Aaron Ogden _vs._ Thomas _Gibbins_, and the defective transcript was filed October 17, of the same year. When next docketed, the t.i.tle was correctly given, Thomas Gibbons _vs._ Aaron Ogden. (_Ib._)

[1160] Act of April 19, 1811, _Acts of Territory of Orleans, 1811_, 112-18.

[1161] Act of Nov. 18, 1814, _Laws of Georgia, 1814_, October Sess.

28-30.

[1162] Act of Feb. 7, 1815, _Laws of Ma.s.sachusetts, 1812-15_, 595.

[1163] Act of June 15, 1815, _Laws of New Hamps.h.i.+re, 1815_, II, 5.

[1164] Act of Nov. 10, 1815, _Laws of Vermont, 1815_, 20.

[1165] Ohio, for example, pa.s.sed two laws for the ”protection” of its citizens owning steamboats. This act provided that no craft propelled by steam, operated under a license from the New York monopoly, should land or receive pa.s.sengers at any point on the Ohio sh.o.r.es of Lake Erie unless Ohio boats were permitted to navigate the waters of that lake within the jurisdiction of New York. For every pa.s.senger landed in violation of these acts the offender was made subject to a fine of $100.

(Chap, XXV, Act of Feb. 18, 1822, and chap. II, Act of May 23, 1822, _Laws of Ohio, 1822_.)

[1166] Niles's _Register_ for these years is full of accounts of the building, launching, and departures and arrivals of steam craft throughout the whole interior of the country.

[1167] See Blane: _An Excursion Through the United States and Canada_, by ”An English Gentleman,” 119-21. For an accurate account of the commercial development of the West see also Johnson: _History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce_, I, 213-15.

On March 1, 1819, Flint saw a boat on the stocks at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 180 feet long, 40 feet broad, and of 700 tons burden. (Flint's Letters, in _E. W. T._: Thwaites, IX, 164.)

[1168] Blane, 118.

[1169] _Annals_, 14th Cong. 2d Sess. 296.

[1170] _Ib._ 361.

[1171] See debate in the House, _ib._ 851-923; and in the Senate, _ib._ 166-70.