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Roads in Columbus, 78–79; map in the West, 79; typical contract on, 81–83; in Indiana and Illinois, 83–88; railway proposed as substitute for, 86–88; men who were prominent in building, 91; government unable to collect toll on, 91–92; surrendered to individual states, 92; Pennsylvania tollgates on, 93; laws for preservation of, 96–99; Pennsylvania toll rates (1831) on, 100–101; toll system on, 102; Ohio toll rates on, 103–104; exemptions from paying toll on, 106–107; comparison of tolls received east and west of Ohio River, 109–113; amount of toll paid in Ohio, 114; Ohio leases, 115; legal width in Ohio, 115; given to counties, 115; tolls in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1899, 117; never self-sustaining, 118; stage coach days on, 119–128; stage coach lines operating on, 124–125, 134–138; monopolies on stage line, 125; description of stages on, 126–128; first Troy coach on, 128; freight traffic on, 128–132; freight rates on, 132; rivalry of coach lines on, 133; mail lines on, 142–151; rapid time made by mail coaches on, 143–145; old time tables of mails on, 146–147; mails delayed on, 148–149; division of mail and pas-