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911. BOOKS, Duty on.—[continued].

I hope a crusade will be
kept up against the duty on books until those


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in power shall become sensible of this stain
on our legislation, and shall wipe it from their
code, and from the remembrance of man, if
possible.—
To Jared Sparks. Washington ed. vii, 335. Ford ed., X, 293.
(M. 1824)