As one after another departed, there was less need of that vigilance, "by night and by day," to see that none of the latter class went without due license; that the foreign boatmen on their descriptive lists were duly bonded for; that no "freedmen" slipped in; and that no ardent spirits were taken in contrary to law.

The tobacco, being of United States' growth, may, to a considerable extent, be bonded here for re-exportation on foreign account merely.

During the wilderness period and far down into later periods it was the chief and at times practically the only bond that bound together the individual members of the tribe and nation.