The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835

by Albert J. Beveridge

[1236] Niles, xxvi, 54-62.

[1237] For example, steamboat construction on the Ohio alone almost doubled in a single year, and quadrupled within two years. (See table in Meyer-MacGill: History of Transportation in the United States, etc., 108.)

[1238] 1 Hopkins's Chancery Reports, 151.

[1239] Ib. 198.

[1240] 3 Cowen, 716-17.

[1241] 3 Cowen, 731-34.

[1242] Ib. 750.

[1243] Ib.

[1244] 3 Cowen, 753-54.

[1245] This bill had been proposed by Senator Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky at the previous session (Annals, 18th Cong. 1st Sess, 575) as an amendment to a bill reported from the Judiciary Committee by Senator Martin Van Buren (ib. 336).