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4006. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, Constitutional Amendment.—

For authority
to apply the surplus[taxes imposed for the
support of the government and the payment
of the Revolutionary debt] to objects of[internal] improvement, an amendment of the
Constitution would have been necessary.—
To J. W. Eppes. Washington ed. vi, 195. Ford ed., ix, 395.
(P.F.,,
Sep. 1813)