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Letter from Roger B. Taney to Unknown Recipient
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4
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November 27, 1822
Lawyer and banker Roger Brooke Taney responds to a client who wants to collect a toll from travelers that ford a river rather than use their tolled bridge. While an "Act of 1818" prohibits such collections, Taney suggests a different solution: "Obstruct[ing] the ford as the law authorize[s] you to do. The public must then use the bridge & using the bridge the law compels them to pay the toll." Transcript included.
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I-AsbellY-2004-8
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Gift of Yale Asbell