FOOTNOTES:


[Footnote 1: Letter to Philip A. Bruce, dated London, April 8, 1889.]

[Footnote 2: James Ferguson, _Life of Hopkins_. Hopkins' Circular,
1793.]

[Footnote 3: Jefferson, _Notes on Virginia_.]

[Footnote 4: Kennedy's _Report_, p. 160.]

[Footnote 5: A.C.S. Report for 1853, pp. 37-55.]

[Footnote 6: The remarks of these gentlemen and others of similar views
have subjected the Society to many unjust attacks. Of course many would
join such a movement from mixed motives; but the guiding principles of
the Society itself have always been distinctly philanthropic.]

[Footnote 7: Report of Amos Kendall, Fourth Auditor, to the Secretary of
the Navy, August, 1830.]

[Footnote 8: Ashmun.]

[Footnote 9: These were eventually paid by the United States Government.
Kendall's Report to Secretary of Navy, December, 1830.]

[Footnote 10: The outbreak of the Civil War ended the arrangement after
the third payment.]