Note 130 — Chapter X · EARLY AMERICAN MECHANICS
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The Senate Committee which recommended this action consisted of Rusk of Texas, Cass of Michigan, Davis of Mississippi, Dix of New York, and Benton of Missouri. The bill passed the Senate in June, and the House in August, 1848.
[131] “Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family,” pp. 506-508, 518. Goodrich, p. 51.
[132] Goodrich, p. 48.