The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-04-10
The Kanawha Improvement.

As matter of special interest to many of our
Western readers we republish the bill and resou
tons passed by the late General Assembly in rela
ton to the improvement of the Ksnawha river.
1t will be seen that the James River and Ka
nawha Company are authorized to modify the
plan originally proposed by Mr.. Fisk. This seems
to have grown out of the doubts of the engineers
as to the complete adaptation of the sluice navi-
CATION to the entire length of the river.
For this reason, the Company have instructed
their engineer to select suitable shoal to test the
plan of Mr. Fisk, with view to subsequent policy
as to the remainder of the Improvement. This
experiment must require some months, and it will
doubtless be towards tue fall of the year before the
Company will be prepared to exhibit satisfactory
statements as to the nature and cost of the i'm
provement
Looking upon this Improvement of the Kanawha
river one step towards that greatest of all
works In the State--the connection by water COM
municaton of the Chesapeake and the Ohio--we
sincerely hope that it will be pushed forward with
all possible speed When it is done, there will be
that much to do to complete the grand undertak
ing which will do more for Virginia than all other
improvements that have been projected, or that
may yet be in all time to come
AN ACT
Authorizing the James Rirer and Kanoasho Componu
10 corroao money 10 Improve the kandDha River and
nIteoge TIE 1oHs on said Ripey for that purDose
Passed February S, 1861
Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly. Tina, tho
James River and X nnwba Company be and thev arc
authorized hereby to borrow a sum, not exoeedins
three hundred and CITY thousand dollars IN he an'
Piled to the Improvement Of the navigation en- the
kanawhs River, between the mouth of se,d 49,
and point On the same, not higher up than Ionn
Creek Shoals. "p
1t shall be lawful for srid Companv IN i,.,. H..
bonds certificates of debt bearing interest A.
not exceeding seven per cent for 30 much of Ire mo-
ney as may be obtained by virtu. of this act nro,
ded that the same she'll not be sold for less sum than
the par value of six per cent bonda nor delivered ont
By said Company until an actual bona ade sale there
Of and payment by the purchaser of the AMOUNT on
the face of said bonds.
said bonds and the ultimate redemption of The prin
cipaf the said Company 10 authorized and empower
"a 10 pledge the nett due, or hereafter
TO become due, from tolls the said Kanawha river
ana any Hen or por claim that the State may hold on
SAD tos are hereby suspended in favor of such par
ues ~ mhy ADVANCE money to said Company, for the
purposes OF act: provided that the said
s' N ADDITION TO the interest agreed to be paid to
me coma hde holdes annually set apart out OF such
los sinking fund sufficient to extiprush fbe whole
1nt IN eight years from and after the en- piratoo Of
reh period the State shall be reinstated to ali the
titled sno pnorties to which she was en-
Ta previous to the passage of this act
Inc said company shall have pow r TO s.t.hl,.b an
aasIionsi collection district at some snits ~ ,;,
therss, ~ mou.h OF Elk RIVER snd collect tos
aswhs river and which may herssftsT - tan.
khaslaa Ihsfeon TO OF from any points bslow Eit
saS may x ne sate Of io On eli articles q
~ Pow o. hereafter authorised To hs .eisesa ~
aiu,.il district, AID shall be subiset 81 80
saes = msn s a'nsrsns points account Of Sis
A1ay seem 70 ssaa company % bs ressossh