John Dan ORDER OF REFERENCE OF THE Supreme Court of the United States, IN THE CASE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, Complainant, AGAINST THE WHEELING & BELMONT BRIDGE COMPANY AND OTHERS, Defendants, WITH THE PROOFS TAKEN BEFORE R. HYDE WALWORTH, COMMISSIONER , TOGETHER WITH HIS REPORT, AND THE REPORT OF THE ENGINEER APPOINTED BY AIM TO TAKE THE MEASUREMENT OF THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE AND THE LOCALITIES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH ; Pursuant to tho Directions contained in tho Order of Reference. SARATOGA SPRINGS : GEORGE F. WHITE, PRINTER. 1851. INDEX. PAGE. 665 3 4 Report of W. J. McAlpine, as engineer, Proposition of complainant's counsel as to taking testimony, Abstract of licenses, &c. issued in the district of Pittsburgh, from Decem- 53 118 236 269 313 333 ber, 1848, to June, 1850, for steam vessels built at Pittsburgh, Objections to E. F. Johnson as engineer, Report as to railway suspension bridge across the Connecticut, by Charles Ellet, jr., Report as to the N. Y. and Boston rail road company, by E. F. Johnson, Report on the Wheeling bridge to the city council of Wheeling, by Charles Ellet, jr., Heights of sail vessels on the Connecticut river, Register of state of the water at Wheeling, Report, &c. of a wire suspension bridge, proposed to be erected over the Ohio, at Cincinnati, by John A. Roebling, Ellet's letter on the proposed bridge across the Ohio, at Cincinnati, Report of the president of the Louisville and Portland canal, Extract from letter of Capt. Hughes, Capt. Sanders' table of shoals and ripples of the Ohio, Memorial to congress from Evansville convention, Table of measurements of steamboats, by J. Dickenson, Application of defendants to postpone case, Prof. Bartlett's corrections, &c. Instructions to engineer, Engineer's table of measurements of heights of bridge above river, of measurements of localities of bridge, of packets and large steamboats, . of estimates for alterations of bridge, 457 495 546 591 600 608 635 644 658 691 694 698 700 708 DEPOSITION OF COMPLAINANT'S WITNESSES. Civil Engineers. Byrne, Oliver, 112 |