Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . - loans of $500,000 each. The legislature in 1825 repealed the act of the i)receding- yearand passed a new act. which ])r()vided for the apjjointment of five. Section of Old Portage Road As it appears to-day between Duncansville andSummit. Engraved for this work from a neg-ative by J. F. Hammer canal commissioners (four additional commissioners were author-ized under the act of 1826, but in 1830 the number was reducedto three), with power to consider and adopt such measures as w-eredeemed proper for the establishment of navigable comm
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . - loans of $500,000 each. The legislature in 1825 repealed the act of the i)receding- yearand passed a new act. which ])r()vided for the apjjointment of five. Section of Old Portage Road As it appears to-day between Duncansville andSummit. Engraved for this work from a neg-ative by J. F. Hammer canal commissioners (four additional commissioners were author-ized under the act of 1826, but in 1830 the number was reducedto three), with power to consider and adopt such measures as w-eredeemed proper for the establishment of navigable communicationbetween the eastern and western waters of the State and LakeErie. This act established the board of canal commissioners,under wdiose supervision the Pennsylvania canal and all its lateral 280 Internal Improvements branches was constructed. The act of 1824 constituted a tempo-rary l)oard for the pur])ose of ascertaining the most practicableroute for a main line canal, but the act of 1825 established the com-mission as a department of State government, and also disclosedthe legislative determination to carry into effect the great publicenterprise long advocated by the leading men of the State. The commis
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