[Footnote HC: Session of 1866-67.]

[Footnote HD: Report of the select committee on the merchant marine, in
Repts. of Committee, 1870, 41st Cong., 2d Bess., House Kept., no. 28.]

[Footnote HE: House Rept., no. 2378, 51st Cong., 2nd sess.]

[Footnote HF: House Report, no. 28, 41st Cong., 2d sess.]

[Footnote HG: House Docs., no. 598, also Miscellaneous Docs.; nos. 74
and 255, 42d Cong., 2nd sess.]

[Footnote HH: House Docs., no. 268, 43rd Cong., 1st sess.]

[Footnote HI: Meeker.]

[Footnote HJ: House Docs., Rept., no. 601, 51st Cong., 1st sess.]

[Footnote HK: Text of this bill in Bates, pp. 411-416.]

[Footnote HL: House Rept., no. 3273, 51st Cong., 2d sess.]

[Footnote HM: Marvin, p. 414.]

[Footnote HN: United States Statutes at Large, vol. XXVI, p. 830.]

[Footnote HO: Originally the International Navigation Company
established in Philadelphia in 1871, and beginning service between
Philadelphia and Liverpool with four American-built steamships.]