Commentaries on American Law (1826-30)Chancellor James Kent Of the History of the American Union
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     1.    Hazard's State Papers, 496, 583, 590. Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts, vol. 1. 124,. 126. Robertson's Posthumous History of America, b. 10. p. 191,192.
     2.    Smith's History of New York, vol. i. p. 171.
     3.    Minot's History of Massachusetts, vol. 1, ch. 9. Franklin's Works, p. 85, London ed. 1779. Belknap's New Hampshire, Vol. 2, 285. Smith's History of New York, vol. 2, 180.
     4.    Franklin's Works, p. 152, 182.
     5.    2 Belknap's N. H. 326. Journals of the Assembly of the Colony of N.Y. October, 1765.
     6.    Journals of Congress, vol. l, p. 74.
     7.    Journals of Cong. vol. 3.
     8.    Ibid. vol. 7.
     9.    Journals of Cong. vol. 5, p. 208.
   10.    Ibid. vol. 5.
   11.    Congress, by ordinance, 31st December, 1781, incorporated the Bank of North America; and Judge Wilson, in an able argument in 1785, showed their competency to do it. Journals of Congress, vol. 7, 197. Wilson's Works, vol. 3, 397.
   12.    Journals of Congress, vol. 2, p. 475.
   13.    Hist, de la Con fed. Helv. par Watteville, liv. 5. Planta's Hist. of Switzerland, vol. I. last ch.
   14.    The Imperial Chamber had appellate jurisdiction only. Its sentences were carried into execution against refractory states, by the military force of the circles. Pfeffel, Abr. Chro. de Hist. d'Allemagne, tom. 2. p. 400. Putter's Const. Hist. p. 365.
   15.    Temple's Works, vol. 1, 115, 128, 337.