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1. 2 Haz. Coll. 1, etc.; Id. 521; 2 Holmes's Annals, 55 and note; Marshall Colon. 284, 285, 464; 1 Kent Comm. 190, 191.
2. The first volume of the United States Laws, published by Bioren & Dunne, contains a summary view of the proceedings in Congress for the establishment of the confederation, and also of the convention for the establishment of the constitution of the United States. And the whole proceedings are given at large in the first volume of the Secret Journals, published by Congress in 1821, p. 283 et seq.
3. Journals of 1776, p. 207.
4. The draft of Dr. Franklin, and this draft, understood to be by Mr. Dickinson, were never printed, until the publication of the Secret Journals by order of Congress in 1821, where they will be found under pages 283 and 290.
5. Secret Journals, 1776, p. 304.
6. Secret Journals, 401, 418, 423, 424, 426; 3 Kent's Comm. 196, 197.
7. 2 Pitk. Hist. ch. 11, p. 19 to 36; 1 Kent's Comm. 197, 198.
8. Secret Journals, 371, 373, 376, 378, 381; 2 Pitk. Hist. ch. 11, p. 19 to 32.
9. Secret Journals, 373, 376, 383; 2 Pitk. Hist. ch. 11, p. 19 to 32.
10. 2 Dall. R. 470, per Jay C. J.; 2 Pitk. Hist. ch. 11, p. 19 to 36.
11. Secret Journals, 6 Sept. 1780, p. 442; 1 Kent's Comm. 197, 198; 2 Pitk. Hist. ch. 11, p. 19 to 36.
12. The history of these cessions will be found in the Introduction to the Land Law of the United States, printed by order of congress in 1810, 1817, and 1828; and in the first volume of the Laws of the United States, printed by Bioren and Duane in 1815, p. 452, etc.