Date: 1836
282 The power was to be found in that clause of the constitution which allows us to regulate commerce with foreign nations and amono- the several States.  It was under that clause of the consti tution, he said, that we now had Mr. Hassler, with his splendid apparatus and scientific corps, engaged in surveying the whole maritime coast of the nation.  No one doubted our authority to do this ; and the most important and useful results were likely to follow the surveys.