Note 85 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
House Doc., 16 Cong. 1 sess. III. No. 42, pp. 10–11. Cf. Report of the House Committee, Jan. 10, 1818: "It is but too notorious that numerous infractions of the law prohibiting the importation of slaves into the United States have been perpetrated with impunity upon our southern frontier." Amer. State Papers, Miscellaneous, II. No. 441.