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5735. NAVIGATION, Protection of.—[further continued] .

I have ever wished that
all nations would adopt a navigation law
against those who have one, which perhaps
would be better than against all indiscriminately,
and while in France I proposed it
there.—
To Tench Coxe. Washington ed. v, 199. Ford ed., ix, 142.
(M. 1807)