The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion

by Lindsay Rogers

[184] Ibid., pp. 83, 107.

[185] Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay (Ed. Johnston), vol. iii, p. 407.

[186] Jefferson, Writings (Ed. Ford), vol. vii, p. 63.

[187] In the discussion of this undertaking and its relation to the postoffice clause of the Constitution, I have derived much assistance from Professor J. S. Young’s “A Political and Constitutional Study of the Cumberland Road” (University of Chicago Press, 1904), although this only incidentally considers the inquiry which my essay attempts.

[188] Gallatin, Writings (Ed. Adams), vol. i, p. 76; Letter to William B. Giles, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee for admitting the North Western Territory into the Union.

[189] The proposed road fund of 10 per cent., however, was by the act which Congress passed on March 3, 1803, reduced to 5 per cent. with some restrictions as to expenditure within the state. 2 Stat. L. 226.

[190] 2 Stat. L. 357; Act of March 29, 1806.

[191] Young, The Cumberland Road, 21.

[192] Laws of Maryland, 1802–1804, ch. 115.

[193] Miscellaneous State Papers, vol. i, p. 474; Young, The Cumberland Road, p. 41.