The Old Pike: A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes ThereonThe author, 1894 - 384 strani |
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Andrew Appian appointed Baltimore Beallsville Beck Braddee brick bridge Brown Brownsville called Centreville citizens Clay Rush Claysville coach Colley commissioners Congress contract contractors Corman Court creek Cumberland Road Daniel David died dollars drove east Endsley erected father Fayette county George Henry Clay Hillsboro horses Isaac Jacob James John Bradfield John F John Snider Joseph known Laurel Hill living Main street Maryland McClelland mentioned miles west Miller Monongahela Monongahela river mountain National Road north side Ohio old house old pike old pike boys old proprietor old road old stage driver old tavern keeper old wagoner passed passengers Pennsylvania Peter Mills Pittsburg postmaster President repairs Robert route Samuel Somerfield south side stage lines Stockton stone stood subsequently succeeded tavern as early Thomas toll town township Uniontown United Virginia wagon stand wagon yard Washington county Western Wheeling widow William Purnell
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Stran 373 - ... thereupon. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to any incorporated company, where such contract or agreement is made for the general benefit of such incorporation or company, as provided In section 116 of the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909 (35 Stat.
Stran 44 - 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.
Stran 44 - A power to establish turnpikes with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvement.
Stran 44 - 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.
Stran 20 - ... to be disbursed, under the direction of Congress, in making roads leading to the state; the residue tobe appropriated, by the legislature of the state, for the encouragement of learning, of which one-sixth part shall be exclusively bestowed on a college or university.
Stran 28 - An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio...
Stran 21 - That five per cent, of the net proceeds of the lands lying within such State, and which shall be sold by Congress...
Stran 46 - ... 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.
Stran 45 - ... for the purchase of Louisiana, and to the original appropriation for the construction of the Cumberland Road; the latter act deriving much weight from the acquiescence and approbation of three of the most powerful of the original members of the Confederacy, expressed through their respective legislatures. Although the circumstances of the latter case may be such as to deprive so much of it as relates to the actual construction of the road of the force of an obligatory exposition of the Constitution,...
Stran 20 - January next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved "for making public roads and canals, of which three-fifths "shall be applied to those objects within the state, under the "direction of the legislature thereof, and the other two-fifths "in defraying, under the direction of Congress, the expenses "to be incurred in making of a road or roads, canal or canals, "leading to the said state.