The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonThe author, 1894 - 384 pages |
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The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and ... Thomas Brownfield Searight Affichage du livre entier - 1894 |
The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and ... Thomas Brownfield Searight Affichage du livre entier - 1894 |
The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and ... Thomas Brownfield Searight Affichage du livre entier - 1894 |
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Page 28 - An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio...
Page 20 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said State, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass...
Page 44 - A power to establish turnpikes, with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of the tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvement. A right to impose duties to be paid by all persons passing a certain road, and on horses and carriages, as is done by this bill, involves the right to take...
Page 49 - States, shall be the supreme law of the land ; and all judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution and laws of any State to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Page 21 - That five per cent, of the net proceeds of the lands lying within such State, and which shall be sold by Congress...
Page 25 - That the commissioners shall, as soon as may be, after they have laid out said road, as aforesaid, present to the President an accurate plan of the same, with its several courses and distances, accompanied by a written report of their proceedings, describing the marks and monuments by which the road is designated, and the face of the country over which it passes, and pointing out the particular parts...
Page 20 - January next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for making public roads and canals...
Page 142 - I have stayed over night with William Sheets [on Negro Mountain] when there would be thirty six-horse teams on the wagon yard, "The Snow-Storm. " Strcxher, Virginia Illustrated one hundred Kentucky mules in an adjacent lot, one thousand hogs in other enclosures, and as many fat cattle from Illinois in adjoining fields. The music made by this large number of hogs, in eating corn on a frosty night, I will never forget.
Page 20 - State, and which shall be sold by Congress from and after the first day of...
Page 46 - To impose on it the necessity of resorting to means which it cannot control, which another government may furnish or withhold, would render its course precarious, the result of its measures uncertain, and create a dependence on other governments, which might disappoint its most important designs, and is incompatible with the language of the Constitution.