Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-05-21
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
trrom The National bafelEgenoer.l

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
From the National hteihgencer
Pursuant 70 notice, the Central Committee
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Conven-
t;on met at Browns Hotel, i'll the City Of
washington. on the 18th instant. Present
Charles F. Mercer, Alfred B. Powell, and Hi
ram L. Opie, from Virginia; Frisby Tilghman
and John Lee, from Maryland John Mason,
IF Georgetown, and Walter Jones, of the City
of Washington.
The Chairman briefly stated to the Commit
tee the success which had attended the OBJ
iect of the Convention, since its meeting on
the 9th of November, 1928. He submitted to
them copy of the act of the Legislature OF
Virginia, incorporating the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company of the conirmatory act
of the Legislature of Maryland, passed at its
late session, and of the Congress of the United
States, of the Sd of March, as we'll as the reso-
lutions of the Potomac Company, OF the day
preceding all which, taken together, autho'
rized the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
panv to extend their labors as far as the Penn
sylvania line, and would empower them to
proceed, as originally contemplated by the
Convention, to Pittsburg, on receiving the as
sent of that State. The causes of the delay
of the confrmatory act of Pennsylvania, the
Chairman explained and illustrated by refer
ence to number of private letters from Har-
risburg, during the recent session OF the Lee
p;slature, which left no room to doubt but
that the consent of that intelligent and patri-
otto state had been withheld only till the en-
suing session of its Legislature, to which had
been postponed, by vote of the last House
of Representatives, bill designed for that
object. with a recommendation to their sue
cessors to act upon it, at the earliest period
practicable All that it remained for the Cen
trail Committee to do, in order to terminate
their duties, it was suggested, was to expedite,
as far as practicable, the appointment of the
Commissioners, contemplated by the new
charter, for the purpose of opening books for
the subscription of stock to the new Compa-
nv and, to the attainment of this end, the
Committee instructed the Chairman to address
a letter TO the President of the United States,
and to the Governors of Maryland and Virgil
mia, respectfully requesting as early an atten-
ton TO this subject, as convenient.
A correspondence between the Chairman OF
the Committee and the Department of War, in
relation to the. progress of the contemplated
surveys and estimates of the military and civil
Engineers engaged on the line of the Canal,
was also submitted by the Chirman to the
Committee, who deemed it expedient that
the Commissioners, who may be deputed to
open the books, should be appraised of the
information which it affords, and that the
Chairman of the Committee should suggest to
them, individually, the policy of awaiting the
report of the estimates of the Board, which
might be expected by the first or middle of
October, before the books should be opened.
The Committee, having unanimously con-
CURED in all the preceding propositions, adj
journed to meet again in Washington, on the
day of the first assemblage of the Commission
ers, after their appointment.