[4] In Re Debs, 158 U. S. 564 (1895).
[5] Hemmeon, The History of the British Post Office, p. 3 ff.
[6] Mass. Historical Collections, 3d Series, vol. vii, p. 48; quoted by Mary E. Wooley in her monograph on “Early History of the Colonial Post Office,” Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, vol. i, p. 270 ff.
[7] Hemmeon, p. 32; Joyce, The History of the Post Office from its Establishment down to 1836, p. 196.
[8] Wooley, Early History of the Colonial Post Office, p. 275; Hemmeon, p. 33. See also Pliny Miles, “History of the Post Office,” American Bankers’ Magazine, n. s., vol. vii, p. 358 (November, 1857).
[9] Miles, p. 361.
[10] American Archives, Fourth Series, vol. i, pp. 500–504.
[11] Ibid., vol. ii, p. 536 ff.
[12] See Jameson (Ed.), Essays in Constitutional History, p. 168 ff.
[13] Journals of the Continental Congress (edited by Ford), ii, p. 71. (References up to 1781 are to this edition, Washington, 1904.... Since the sixteenth volume, the editor has been Gaillard Hunt.)