Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . overnor selected Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, Hon. Robert E. Mon-aghan, and William H. Miller, to act with a similar com-mission from the State of Delaware, to survey and re-establishthe boundary line between the two States. A new line was agreedupiin, and was appropriately marked: but for several years thematter has been in litigation on account of the dissatisfactioncaused by the new lioundary. Commissions were also appointedto revise and codify the laws relating to the poor; to revise thelaws relating to public
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal; a history, 1608-1903Editor: Howard MJenkins . overnor selected Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, Hon. Robert E. Mon-aghan, and William H. Miller, to act with a similar com-mission from the State of Delaware, to survey and re-establishthe boundary line between the two States. A new line was agreedupiin, and was appropriately marked: but for several years thematter has been in litigation on account of the dissatisfactioncaused by the new lioundary. Commissions were also appointedto revise and codify the laws relating to the poor; to revise thelaws relating to public highways, and to investigate the subjectof coal waste. Another commission, to make and survey a routefor a ship canal to connect the waters of Lake Erie and the OhioRiver, made a careful study (if this question, and reported the 492 Beavers ainl IattisDiis Ailiiiinistrations teasil)ility of such an uiulorlaUinsT;. (ii>voninr l*)eavcr wrote en-thusiastically on this subject, as follows: If the waters of LakeI^rie and the Ohio were ct>nnected by a canal such as is proposed. Richard Peters Secretary Continental Board of War, 1776;afterward commissioner of war until 1781;discovered that Benedict Arnold was convertingwar funds to his own use; member ContinentalCongress, 1782-1783; speaker State Assembly,1788-1790; speaker State Senate. 1791; judgeUnited States District Court, 1792-1828; firstpresident Philadelphia Agricultural Society and shown to be entirely feasible, and if the present canal fromAlbany to Bufifalo were enlarged so as to admit vessels of thesame size, these links would secure a chain of inter-waterwaycommunication between New York and New Orleans, whichwould be invaluable for commercial purposes and in times of war 493 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal would furnish an entirely safe means of communication betweenthese important termini and all interior points. It would in ad-dition give us control for defensive purposes of our lake front,which we do not now h
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