The Old Pike; A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHA l'TE? III. 7V Ad of Congres Authorizing the Laging Out amt Making of the Road. An Aet to Refjnb, te tin- Laving Out and Making a Road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryla?f, to the State of Ohio. Be it eaacted bg the Seaate and House of Represeatatiees of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, thrce disercet and disinterested citizens of the United States, to lay out a road from Cumberland, or a point on the northern bank of the river Potomae, in the State of Maryland, betwcen Cumberland and the place where the main road leading from Iwynn's to Winchester, in Virginia, erosses l the river, to the State of Ohio; whose duty it shall be, as soon as may be, after thcir appointment, to repair to Cumberland aforesaid, and view the ground, from the points on the river Potomac hercinbefore designated, to the river Ohio; and to lay out in such direetion as they shall judge, under all circumstances the most proper, a road from thence to the river Ohio, to strike the same at the most convenient place, betwcen a point on its eastern bank, opposite the northern boundary of Steubenville, in said State of Ohio, and the mouth of Grave ercek, which empties into the said river a little below Whceling, in Virginia. Seo. 2. And be it further eaacted. That the aforesaid road shall be laid out four rods in width, and designated on each side by a plain and distinguishable mark on a trce, or by the ereetion of a stake or monument sufficiently conspicuous, in every quarter of a mile of the distance at least, where the road pursues a straight course so far or farther, and on each side, at every point where an angle oecurs in ils course. S...