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 HIM TO TAKE THE MEASUREMENT OF THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE
OHIO RIVER AT WHEELING, ITS APPENDAGES AND APPURTENANCES,

AND THE LOCALITIES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH;

Pursuant to the Directions contained in the Order of Reference.

SARATOGA SPRINGS:

GEORGE F. WHITE, PRINTER.

1851.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING.

JUN 20 1917
TRANSFERRED TO

HANYARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

217-65

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INDEX.

Report of Commissioner,

Report of W. J. McAlpine, as engineer,

Order of reference,

Proposition of complainant's counsel as to taking testimony,

Abstract of licenses, &c. issued in the district of Pittsburgh, from Decem-

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

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665

3

4

53

118

Ellet, jr.,

236

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.,

269

313

Heights of sail vessels on the Connecticut river,

333

Register of state of the water at Wheeling,

335

Report, &c. of a wire suspension bridge, proposed to be erected over the

Ohio, at Cincinnati, by John A. Roebling,

457

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,

DEPOSITION OF COMPLAINANT'S WITNESSES.

Civil Engineers.

546

591

600

- 608

635

644

658

691

694

698

- 700

708

Byrne, Oliver,

Johnson, E. F.,

112

215