[62] Ante, Vol. III. p. 51.

[63] That question was then under discussion. Ante, Vol. X. pp. 336, 337.

[64] Acts of the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1831-2, p. 80.

[65] Memorial of the Executive Committee of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies: Documents accompanying the Governor’s Message to the Legislature of New Jersey, October, 1841: Proceedings of the General Assembly, 1841-2, pp. 29, 30.

[66] Memorial of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company: Ibid., p. 32.

[67] American State Papers, Post-Office Department, p. 15.

[68] Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheaton, R., 195.

[69] United States v. Coombs, 12 Peters, S. C. R., 78.

[70] 7 Howard, R., 400.

[71] Ibid., 462, 464.