Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-02-07

Treasury, and likewise a report from The
Secretary of War, containing the mlor-
nation which Is desired.
JAMES MONROE.
Treasury Department.
10Th December, 1917.
The Secretary of the Treasury, 10 whom was
referred the resolution OF the House OF Repre-
| scBiatives, requesting the President of the T.
| nited States 10 cause TO be laid before that
House information of what roads have been
made. or are an progress, under the executive
authority of the United States the states aud
territories through which they pass, or are ~
| tended TO pass the periods when they we're
ordered To be made and how far the, have
been executed, las tie honor TO submit state
menis No. and No. z, from the office OF the
Register OF the Treasury, which show the
number OF roads embraced by the resolutions
the sums which have been expended upon
them the periods when the money was paid
at the treasury. aud the persons to whom the
money was paid.
Statement Nc. 3, shows the amount of the
two per cent. fnnd, arising from the sale of the
public lands in the state of Ohio under the
act of Congress for admitting the north west
territory into the union as an independent
state and statement No. 1, shows the amount
al the same fund in the state of Indiana,
which are understood TO be applicable to the
cIrSlr.c ion ofthe Cumberland Turnpike road
commencing at Cumberland, in the state of
Maryland. passing through part of the states
OF Mary land, Pennsylvania, aud Virginia, and
iutersectng the river Ohio, AT the town of
Wheeling.
This road is completed from Cumberland
torty-tve miles west of that place. Contracts
have heen executed early in the present year,
for the construction of that mart of the road
lying west of the forty fifth mile frem Cumber-
land, 10 Uuion town, distance of nearly fif.
teen miles and from the activity with which
The work Is carried OH by the contractors,
there is just ground TO believe that il will he
COmDleteu m tl., utp,r
Contracts have also been made for compile.
ting upwards of thirty miles of the road west
IT ilIe MonOnsahea, including a section OF
ihe eastern margin of that river.
These contracts embrace such parts of the
roads between the Monougaheld and the
OHIO, AZ presented the most serious difficulties
10 traN eiliiig, and the trans por atou of heavy
articles between those rivers.
Statement No 5, presents an estimate of the
appropriations Which will be necessary TO eua-
bic the Treasury Department. To discharge the
demands which have accrued, and which will
be demandable by the contractors Dendiuo
and at the completion of those sections of lie
road which they have severaiiy agreed 10
construct.
Statement No. 6, shows the estimated
amount of the expence of completing the
whole road from Cumberland to Wheeling
winch is net yet undertaken, including bridges
over the loheogeny and eionoBgahela rivers.
1T may be proper 10 observe THAT the de-
mands which have already accrued beyoud
the appropriation for that object, and which
nowremain unpaid, exceed thirty-eigh thou
sand dollars.
The vigor with which the present contract.
ors have prosecuted their iaoors furnishes the
most satisfactory evidence OF their capacity
and determination 10 perform their engage
ments within the time stipulated. There is
also Just reason TO believe that the whole of
the distance yet TO be undertaken, both ON the
eastern and OH the western side OF the Monou-
gahela, may be advaniageousIy let in the course
OF the ensuing year. and that the road from
Cumberland to the Ohio, may be completed IN
the best manner in two Years from the present
Time, II appropriations equal 10 the object
shall be made during the present session of
Congress.
By statement No.2, it appears that the an
preparations tor opening road from the from
Tiers OF Georgia To New Orleans, and for OMEN
lng another from Nashville to Nntchez were
paid to, and disbursed by, the Post Master
General; those roads being intended princi.
pally for the transportation OF the mail tryonvb
the wilderness separating the different points
from whence they commenced and terminated
Those roads were completed as far as the OBJ.
Ject for which they were intended, required
and are understood 10 be al this time i'm state
TO be useful to that object.
The appropriations tor opening roads from
The Mississippi to the Ohio. and to the former
Indian boundary line, established by the treaty
of Greenville from the foot of The ran;ds n
the Miami OF lake Erie TO the western line of
the Connecticut reserve; and from Shawnee
town to kaskaskla, in the Illinois TERRITORY
have been expended, az far as they have been
carried into effect, by the Treasury Depart.
ment.
The route of the last mentioned road has
been explored, and tue commissioners EMPLOY.
ed in the execution of that service have trans
United map thereof for the sanction of the
President, but nothing more has yet been done.
From the extent of the other roads, which have
been opened under the direction of the Trea-
sury Department, compared with tile sums an
propriated and expended, the state of them
may be readily conceived; but no particular
information OF their present state exists in this
department.. The appropriations were made
| for opening them, and when that was accom-
| piished, no further agency was required from
| the department.
| The two astappropriations exhibited in No.
2, were placed at the disposition of the War
Department. The money has been paid from
| the Treasury, upon the requisiiion of the Sc.
! cfetary of the War Department., but no nfor.
| nation has been received at this department
| of the application OF the money to that object,
nor of the state in which those roads are {
| this time
| All which is respectfully submitted, BY
VIM. III. CRAWFORD.
| The PTesideB Of the United States.
Department of War
,r January goth. 1918.
| The Secretary Of War, to whom was referred
| the resolution Of the House of Repre- sentativcs
| requesting tie President OF the United States
- to cause To I've laid before that Hnuse -, g.,