Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-05-05
Vol. IU.-No. 30.


expenses the year; the annual sinking fund of ten mil.
lions ofdulars for tue cxtingushmeD the public debt
ana alter deduciInc from the nett of the
ana the uncXPcndcd balance OF the preceding year
- dollars, for unforeseen contingencies
J. ResOtced, That 10 aid the Judgment of Congress
IN the selection of t objects for Internal Improvement
and to secure, in due time Just regard for all, system
be devised for the collection of appropriate Information;
and the application of the fund, which shall embrace
the following regulations, together with others as
Congress may hereafter supcradd:
!. That the number of the United States Engineers
be augmented and arranged in distinct corps, be
denomnatcd, respectively, the corps of military and tie
corps OF civil Eng that the latter be divided into
two corps; one whereof shall be denominated the topo-
graphical civil Engineers that every graduate cadet,
leaving the Military Academy ofWest Point be allowed
the choice. SO far may be compatible with public
interest OF entering the corps of military of civil Eu-
glneers and that the last be recruited from time time
as occasion may offer by the appointment OF practical
civil Engineers of established reputation.
H. That the corps of typographical civil Engineers
be employed IN exploring and ernbodyng all such infer
nation may to ascertain, define, and illustrate
the natural surface of the United States and their sus-
ccphby of improvement, by artificial roads railways
and canals, of genera; Importance 10 the Union from
their tendency to facilitate the safe and speedy Transport
taiIon o e mail, 10 promote the extension of the do
mesc and foreign commerce and TO provide for the
common defence of the United States
HI That the residue of the corps of civil engineers
be engaged in forming estimates of the probable cost of
of every such work, experimenting under The orders
OF the Department of War, the conduct of such works
as shall have been begun, reporting to the DEPART
ment their gradual progress the peculiar difficulties if
any, encountered in the execution the manner in which
those difficulties may have been scvcrally overcome;
and the actual compared with the estimated such
elementary part OF every work That of all these
ports, abstracts shall be compiled and transmitted
the Congress of the United States at or near the COM
nencement OF every annual session. These compia-
tons shall be made under the auspices of the Depart
ment OF War, by board consisting of not less than
three civil engineers, who shall suboin them ge-
neral history of the distribution and operations OF the
corps OF civil engineers during tue preceding year. &C
companed BY such reflections may serve TO detect
existing in the design execution of any work.
10 suggest suitable corrections thereof and TO guard
against their recurrence.
~. That along with every enumeration Of the popu-
ation OF the United States, there shall be collected
under instructions from the Treasury Department 10
the agents dcpu'ed to make the same the necessary Ia
oles for exhibiting in tabular form Redistribution ole
people according 10 their occupations in hc several
states and Territories, and in their respective subdiv-
sions, into incorporated towns cities and counties or dis
trcts. That those tables shall comprehcnd especially
description OF tie artificial roads, railways and ca
nails already executed, in progress within The United
States and the territories thereof dcuotrg the railways
the number OF lines of parallel rails, and their horizon
ai inclination; OF the canals, their BREADTH denth of
water. and locage AID of all those public works their
denomination, length, actual cost and annual profit;
with the tonnage number, and computed value of the
various commodities transported thereon within The two
years next preceding the period Of inquiry; and tina
those statistical tables be published coeinporaneousIy
/ with each census.
" Tia; during The first Crngress assembled under
any new census, thereafter praCcabe the
fund fur Internal Improvement Of tic ensuing ten years
shall be appropriated by anticipation to roads rail
ways and canals, the wisdom Of Congress NAV deem
within the pale Of its constitutional authority and ,yor-
! thy of public aid.
VI. Tat in those appropriaiions preference ,vare
practicable, shall be- given TO ie execution OF every
such work By the fundamentally oil Joint oci cornpa-
Incorporated in the scvera states rOfinb whose
territory such work may extend.
Oi he n ed Stat III
such works shall constitute special resource first for
payment OF tie interest and lie extinction of The Drin
cPa OF any loans which may he negotiated under au-
thoTy OF law, III order To accelerate their completion;
and next, for etlectng such similar improvement as il
may be the pleasure Of Congress to pat1ouze
T. RcSo(red, That IN periods OF actual apprehend-
ed INVASION the stocks acquired b. tie lisl1rse
ments Of the fund for Internal Improvement together
with the annual revenue arising TO the United States
from tho public works accomplished thereby as well rs
the entire fund itself shall be held dsposabe by transfer
pledge, or Otherwise FOR the public Defence 50 far as
Congress may deem eNpedient, and consistent with The
! public faith
.. Reso'yei That much OF tie fund fo Internal I'M
prOvemcnt rs may annually before The mec!iur
Of the first Congress under the census of 1880 be an
pTopriated III such amounts and under such limit lions
may be prescribed by law TO the coInpetjon of the
line OF inland nav gatiOD along the seabOagd Of The Unit
ed Sates, from Name, across the peninsula OF IOrda
20 New Orleans, to the Chesapeake and Ohio and The
Ohio and Erie Canals; TO the Improvement of the nav
CATION OF the Tennessee Ohio, and Connecticut rivers
TO the extension OF thc Cumberland road to the cor
strucuon of the contemplated road from the District Of
Columbia to New Orleans and 10 such other works of
general Importance, further surveys INV ,icrcIcD
and the part aforesaid of the fund for Internal improve
nent may be compent construct or to Afford eecual
aid in constructing.
VIRGINIA CANALS
Under tie head Of ''Amercan Canals y tic Ncr York
Observer las published mass of valuable information
from which We extract the following sketches Of The
canals il Virginia.
Potomac ri.er calals--Tbe following are tie %.