Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-07-09
Afternoon Session.

Afternoon Session.
2 o'clock, P. M.
Convention met pursuant to ad-
.iournment, the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting were read, and the
committees reported as follows:
On Credentials, reported the num-
Der of Delegates.
On Permanent Officers, WIN.
GREEN, of Cedar, President, o. BEN
TON, Of Louisa; and VIM. REYNOLDS, of
Cedar, Secretaries.
The committee on Resolutions be-
ing called, reported as follows:
WHEREAS, All other sections of our
young State are moving onward in
developing the natural resources with
which they are endowed, procuring
and creating new facilities in order to
the speedy transportation of pro-
duce to market, or of opening and
perfecting the avenues of trade, in
creasing facilities that develop the
physical and financil condition of all
sections interested in such improve
ments, however remote, by intercom-
munication, elevating the moral, So
cial, and intellectual standard of
mankind; the valley of the Iowa, and
Cedar rivers, embracing several
counties of the best produce region
ofthe State, and possessed of natural
advantages sufficient to furnish a
channel of transportation for the pro-
duce of a vast tract of fertile and
populous country to the great market
road of the Mississippi, requiring
- more than united effort of
O (lCdiately interested to per-
feet It, therefore,
Resolved, That it is of the utmost
importance that an immediate effort
be made to establish regular system
of navigation on said streams, the
Susceptibility of which has been prov
ed by frequent experiments.
Resolved, That in order to effect
this, it requires the united efforts and
assistance of all interested or to be
benefited by said enterprise.
Resolved, That the most practicable
method of efecting said object would
be tn organize Joint Stock Company
with sufficient capital to purchase
suitable boats and barges, to run on
said rivers for given period without
regard to Interior objects.
On motion Of Mr.. Benton,
Resolued, That committee of be
appointed whose duty it shall be to
draft articles ofassociation for Joint
Stock Company, and to solicit sub
scriptions to the same. The objects
of said Company to be uninterrupted
navigation of the Iowa and Cedar
rivers, by Steamboats, and barges.
Also that said committee be en-
powered to contract with the owners
of any good boat or boats who may
agree to run her on the rivers, and
pledge the support of the trading part
Of the community, and also to procure
such pledges from the traders, mer-
chants, and millers, on the said
streams, and vicinity, until such times
assaid company shall be in operation
said committee to consist of.
Messrs. Toole, Benton, Townsend
Bell, Nofsinger, Isett and William
son.
Resolued, That said committee sc
soon as the amount subscribed shall
in their judgement be sufficient tt
warrant the undertaking, call a meet
ing of the stockholders for the pur
pose of organizing and being incor
porated. Shares to be twenty dollar
each.
On motion, Rcsolvcd, That the pro
ceedings of this Convention be signet
by the officers, and published in tn
Louisa County Times, the Burlington
Iowa City, Muscatine and Davenpor
papers.
VIM. GREEN, Pres't.
o. BENTON, Sec,,
WIN. r. REYNOLDS,
D7Inquisitive people are the fun
nels of conversation; they do not TAX
in any thing for their own use, mere
ly to pass it to another.
New YoRk AND ERlE KAlLRoAp.-Thi
road carried during the last weel
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