Note 65 — Chapter VIII
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Statutes at Large, II. 426. There were some few attempts to obtain laws of relief from this bill: see, e.g., Annals of Cong., 10 Cong. 1 sess. p. 1243; 11 Cong. 1 sess. pp. 34, 36–9, 41, 43, 48, 49, 380, 465, 688, 706, 2209; House Journal (repr. 1826), II Cong. 1–2 sess. VII. 100, 102, 124, etc., and Index, Senate Bill No. 8. Cf. Amer. State Papers, Miscellaneous, II. No. 269. There was also one proposed amendment to make the prohibition perpetual: Amer. State Papers, Miscellaneous, I. No. 244.