The Great American Canals, Volume 14A. H. Clark Company, 1904 - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) |
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Page 44 - An Act to Provide for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of the State," passed on the 8th day of April, 1811, who were Gouverneur Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Simeon De Witt, William North, Thomas Eddy, Peter B. Porter, Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton...
Page 90 - Delays are the refuge of weak minds, and to procrastinate on this occasion is to show a culpable inattention to the bounties of nature; a total insensibility to the blessings of Providence, and an inexcusable neglect of the interests of society. If it were intended to advance the views of individuals, or to foment the divisions of party ; if it promoted the interests of a few, at the expense of the prosperity of the many ; if its benefits were limited as to place, or fugitive as to duration, then...
Page 208 - States, and the states equally interested with this state in the commencement, prosecution and completion of those important works, will contribute their full proportion of the expense; and in order that adequate funds may be provided, and properly arranged and managed, for the prosecution and completion of all the navigable communications contemplated by this act...
Page 60 - Atlantic America, on account of the priority of its settlement, its vicinity to the ocean, and its favourable position for commerce, has many advantages. The western country, however, has a decided superiority in the fertility of its soil, the benignity of its climate, and the extent of its territory. To connect these great sections by inland navigation, to unite our Mediterranean seas with the ocean, is evidently an object of the first importance to the general prosperity.
Page 207 - States : and whereas, it is the incumbent duty of the people of this State to avail themselves of the means which the Almighty has placed in their hands, for the production of such signal, extensive and lasting benefits to the human race...
Page 223 - Being the history of the Philippines from their discovery to the present time EXPLORATIONS by early Navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History, and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous...
Page 204 - And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, as soon as may be after the passing of this act, to cause those parts of...
Page 206 - And be it further enacted, That the act entitled ' ' an act to provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of this state...
Page 95 - It remains for a free State to create a new era in history, and to erect a work more stupendous, more magnificent, and more beneficial than has hitherto been achieved by the human race.
Page 210 - That the commissioners appointed by the act, entitled " an act to provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of this state" passed April 17, 1816, shall continue to possess the powers thereby conferred, and be denominated " the canal commissioners ; " and they are hereby authorized and empowered, in behalf of this state, and on the credit of the fund...