Chesapeake and Ohio Canal documents . n this age of internal improvement. The author and his nu-merous experiments corroborate so much, of what, the antecedent note onthat part of the report relating to this topic, had suggested to be a possibleimprovement, in adapting a canal, like that which now extends along thevalley of the Potomac, to the important uses above mentioned, that the chair-man obtained permission of the committee, to submit to the House of Re-presentatives, on the 14th of May, the following resolution, which beingconsidered on the same day by unanimous consent, was adopted: Co
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal documents . n this age of internal improvement. The author and his nu-merous experiments corroborate so much, of what, the antecedent note onthat part of the report relating to this topic, had suggested to be a possibleimprovement, in adapting a canal, like that which now extends along thevalley of the Potomac, to the important uses above mentioned, that the chair-man obtained permission of the committee, to submit to the House of Re-presentatives, on the 14th of May, the following resolution, which beingconsidered on the same day by unanimous consent, was adopted: Congress op the United States. In the House of Representatives, May 15, motion of Mr. Mercer,Resolved, That a late treatise, published in London rn 1833, on Canal Naviga-tion, by John Macneill, (omitting the plates,) be added to, and make a part ofthe Appendix of the Report of the Committee on Roads and Canals, on bill , authorizing a subscription to the stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Attest: W. S. Franklin,
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