[Footnote 207: Mass. Coll. Recs., I., 55: III., 424.]
[Footnote 208: Acts and Resolves of the Prov. of Mass. Bay, I., 172.]
[Footnote 209: Bigelow, Franklin's Works, II., 316, 221. A plan for
public trading houses came before the British ministry while Franklin
was in England, and was commented upon by him for their benefit.]
[Footnote 210: Hening, Statutes, VII., 116.]
[Footnote 211: Journals of Congress, 1775, pp. 162, 168, 247.]
[Footnote 212: _Ibid._, 1776, p. 41.]
[Footnote 213: Ford's Washington's Writings, X., 309.]
[Footnote 214: Annals of Cong., IV., 1273; cf. _ibid._, V., 231.]
[Footnote 215: Amer. State Papers, Ind. Affs., I., 583.]
[Footnote 216: Annals of Cong., VI., 2889.]
[Footnote 217: Annals of Congress, V., 230 ff., 283; Abridgment of
Debates, VII., 187-8.]
[Footnote 218: Amer. State Papers, Ind. Affs., I., 684; II., 181.]
[Footnote 219: Amer. State Papers, VI., Ind. Affs., II., 203; Ind.
Treaties, 399 _et seq._; Wis. Hist. Colls., VII., 269; _Washington
Gazette_, 1821, 1822, articles by Ramsay Crooks under signature
"Backwoodsman," and speech of Tracy in House of Representatives,
February 23, 1821; Benton, Thirty Years View; _id._, Abr. Deb., VII.,
1780.]
[Footnote 220: To understand the importance of these two points see
_post_, pp. 62-5.]