Report of the select committee appointed on the 4th of December, last, on so much of the message of the President of the United States as relates to roads and canals
Subtitle: February 20, 1817. Printed by order of the House of Representatives
Contributors: Davis, William A., printer; Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company
Series: House document (United States. Congress. House) -- 14th Congress, 2nd session, no. 92.
Publisher: [William A. Davis]
Published: 1817
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Canals; Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company; Dismal Swamp Canal Company
Notes: Reporting a bill "authorizing the secretary of the Treasury to subscribe for shares in the capital stock of certain canal companies therein mentioned, to wit: the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and the company incorporated by the states of Virginia and North-Carolina, for opening a canal through the Dismal Swamp ..."

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At head of title, in square brackets: 92.

William A. Davis was printer to the House of Representatives for the 14th Congress.

"To the honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, the memorial of the subscribers, directors of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, on behalf of that company, respectfully showeth ..."--p. 3-8. Signed: Kensey Johns, president of the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal Company. Jos. Gilpin, James C. Fisher.

Rare Book copy: No.6 in a bound volume of titles.

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 42731

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