FOOTNOTES:

[15] "Twentieth Century Negro Literature," by W. W. Culp, page 399.

Published by J. L. Nichols Co., Atlanta, Ga.

[16] Opinions of Attorney General of the U. S., Vol. 9, page 171.

[17] An act to establish a Patent Office, and to provide for granting

patents for new and useful discoveries, inventions, improvements and

designs. Statutes at large of the Confederate States of America,

1861-64, page 148.

[18] Desdunes, Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire, 101.

[19] _Munsey's Magazine_, August, 1912, p. 723.

[20] "Short History of American Shoemaking," by Frederick A. Gannon,

Salem, Mass., 1912.

[21] A copy of this was shown the writer September, 1915.

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