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 19 - ... 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 26 - An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio...
Page 26 - AN ACT TO REGULATE THE LAYING OUT AND MAKING A ROAD FROM CUMBERLAND, IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND, TO THE STATE OF OHIO.
Page 42 - A right to legislate for one of these purposes is a right to legislate for the others. It is a complete right of jurisdiction and sovereignty for all the purposes of internal improvement, and not merely the right of applying money under the power vested in Congress to make appropriations, under which power, with the consent of the States through which this road passes, the work was originally commenced, and has been so far executed.
Page 42 - 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 the land from the proprietor on a valuation and to pass laws for the protection of the road from injuries, and if it exist as to one road it exists as to any other, and to as many roads as Congress may think proper to establish.
Page 42 - 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 19 - That five per cent, of the net proceeds of the lands lying within such State, and which shall be sold by Congress...
Page 44 - ... and this was avowed to be the governing principle through the residue, of his administration. The views of the last administration are of such recent date as to render a particular reference to them unnecessary. It is well known that the appropriating power, to the utmost extent which had been claimed for it, in relation to internal improvements, was fully recognized and exercised by it.
Page 18 - January next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for making public roads and canals...