The Cumberland RoadA.H. Clark Company, 1904 - 207 halaman |
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... reached that place until the third of that month , on which day they all met . " The surveyor having , under his instruc- tions , laid down a plat of his work , showing the meanders of the Potomac and Ohio rivers , within the limits ...
... reached that place until the third of that month , on which day they all met . " The surveyor having , under his instruc- tions , laid down a plat of his work , showing the meanders of the Potomac and Ohio rivers , within the limits ...
Halaman 35
... reached it , near Gist's old place , now Colonel Isaac Meason's , thence through Brownsville and Bridgeport , to cross the Monongahela river below Josias Crawfords ' ferry ; and thence on as straight a course as the country will admit ...
... reached it , near Gist's old place , now Colonel Isaac Meason's , thence through Brownsville and Bridgeport , to cross the Monongahela river below Josias Crawfords ' ferry ; and thence on as straight a course as the country will admit ...
Halaman 39
... reaching the nearest navigation on the western waters , at a point best cal- culated to diffuse the benefits of a great highway , in the greatest possible latitude east of the Ohio , it was considered that , to fulfill the objects of ...
... reaching the nearest navigation on the western waters , at a point best cal- culated to diffuse the benefits of a great highway , in the greatest possible latitude east of the Ohio , it was considered that , to fulfill the objects of ...
Halaman 46
... reached where the old thoroughfare left the old portage trail , on the summit of Laurel Hill . The course was then laid straight toward Brownsville ( Redstone Old Fort ) probably along the general alignment of the old Indian portage ...
... reached where the old thoroughfare left the old portage trail , on the summit of Laurel Hill . The course was then laid straight toward Brownsville ( Redstone Old Fort ) probably along the general alignment of the old Indian portage ...
Halaman 84
... reached Wheeling , Ohio River travel was very much improved , and a large proportion of traffic went down the river by packet . When the road entered Indi- ana , new plans for internal improvements were under way beside which a turnpike ...
... reached Wheeling , Ohio River travel was very much improved , and a large proportion of traffic went down the river by packet . When the road entered Indi- ana , new plans for internal improvements were under way beside which a turnpike ...
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act of April Act of March acts admitting Ohio Alleghany mountain Big Crossings Braddock's Road bridges Brownsville Chillicothe Cincinnati Clairsville Columbus commissioners completed Congress continuing the road contract course creek culverts Cumber Cumberland Road distance east eastern division erected expense Express Mail feet government of Ohio grounds Gwynn's highway horses hundred inches Indiana internal improvement Kirkersville land Road landlord Laurel Hill Laws of Ohio Laws of Pennsylvania laying leaves Columbus mails Maryland Monongahela Monongahela River mountain National Road navigation Ohio River old coaching old road opened paid from fund passed passengers Pennsylvania pamphlet Pittsburg portage Potomac President provided in acts railway repair road from Cumberland road in Ohio Road was built route Springfield stage companies stage lines Steubenville Summit tavern thousand dollars tion tollgate-keepers tollgates tolls town turnpike Uniontown United Vandalia wagon wagonhouses Washington west of Zanesville western Wheeling Youghiogheny Youghiogheny river Zane's Trace Zanesville
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Halaman 61 - ... regulations respecting the territory and other property of the United States.
Halaman 27 - An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio...
Halaman 59 - It is a complete right of jurisdiction and sovereignty for all the purposes of internal improvement, and not merely the right of applying money under the power vested in Congress to make appropriations, under which power, with the consent of the States through which this road passes, the work was originally commenced, and has been so far executed.
Halaman 25 - An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the Territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States, and for other purposes...
Halaman 98 - ... any object of antiquity, situated on lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States, without the permission of the Secretary of the department of the Government having jurisdiction over the lands on which said antiquities are situated, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum of not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for a period of not more than ninety days, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
Halaman 60 - This power can be granted only by an amendment to the constitution, and in the mode prescribed by it. If the power exist, it must be either because it has been specifically granted to the United States, or that it is incidental to some power which has been specifically granted. If we examine the specific grants of power, we do not find it among them ; nor is it incidental to any power which has been specifically granted.
Halaman 59 - A power to establish turnpikes, with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of the tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvement. A right to impose duties to be paid by all persons passing a certain road, and on horses and carriages, as is done by this bill, involves the right to take the land from the proprietor, on a valuation...
Halaman 25 - And be it further enacted, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to defray the expenses of laying out and making said road.
Halaman 26 - SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby requested, to cause to be laid before Congress, as soon as convenience will permit, after the commencement of each session, a statement of the proceedings under this act, that Congress may be enabled to adapt such further measures as may from time to time be proper under existing circumstances.
Halaman 22 - Ohio ; and to lay out in such direction as they shall judge, tinder all circumstances the most proper, a road from thence to the river Ohio, to strike the same at the most convenient place, between a point on its eastern bank, opposite to the northern boundary of Steubenville, in said state of Ohio, and the mouth of Grave Creek, which empties into the said river a little below Wheeling, in Virginia.