[Footnote GQ: U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. XI, p. 101; chap. CLXI, Aug.
18, 1856.]

[Footnote GR: Same appropriation act for ocean steamship service, June
14, 1858.]

[Footnote GS: Marvin, p. 279.]

[Footnote GT: Meeker gives the details as follows: Bremen line (1847-57)
$2,000,000; Havre line (1852-57) $750,000; Collins line (1850-58)
$4,500,000; New York to Aspinwall (1848-58) $2,900,000; Astoria and San
Francisco to Panama (1848-58) $3,750,000; Charleston to Havana (1848-58)
$500,000.]

[Footnote GU: Marvin, p. 253.]

[Footnote GV: Bates, p. 133.]

[Footnote GW: Same, p. 143.]

[Footnote GX: Marvin, p. 254.]

[Footnote GY: George Frisbie Hoar.]

[Footnote GZ: Marvin, p. 258.]

[Footnote HA: Bates, p. 142.]

[Footnote HB: United States Statutes at Large, vol. XIII, p. 93.]