[11] See Appropriations Nos. 20 and 21, in Appendix A.

[12] Private Laws of the United States, May 17, 1796.

[13] Springfield Pioneer, August 1837; also Ohio State Journal, August 8, 1837.

[14] Harriet Martineau’s Society in America, vol. i, p. 17.

[15] Wabash-Erie, Whitewater, and Indiana Central Canals and the Madison and Indianapolis Railway. Cf. Atwater’s Tour, p. 31.

[16] Illinois in ’37, pp. 766-767. This was probably passenger and freight traffic as the mails went overland from the very first, until the building of railways.

[17] Ohio State Journal, January 8, 1836.

[18] Laws of Pennsylvania (pamphlet), p. 500.

[19] See Appropriation No. 27, in Appendix A.

[20] Laws of Ohio, XXIX, p. 76. For specimen advertisement for bids for erection of tollgates in Ohio see Appendix D.