Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the General Assembly of Virginia, with the Accompanying Documents, Količina 31824 |
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affords good navigation aqueduct Assembly authorised average depth Bank of Virginia Board of Public boats Carried forward-Fall Cartersville cents per cubic chains ches commenced commissioners contract creek cubic yard culverts Debts due December depth of cutting Dismal Swamp canal distance dividends dollars embankment engineer estimates excavation expense feeder feet high feet walling ferry fish dam freshets fund for internal Gap turnpike company ground hill side inches internal improvement island James River canal James river company Kanawha river ledge Little River turnpike loan lock mark mile affords mill mouth necessary paid pany passing Potowmac company present president and directors price 15 cents requiring a wall ripple Roanoke Roanoke canal ROBERT POLLARD rocks shoal shore Slate river sluice Snicker's Gap turnpike stockholders stone sufficient survey Swamp canal company Swift Run Gap sycamore tance tion treasurer Tuckahoe creek wall averaging whole fall
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Stran 91 - The impracticability arises from the principle of lock navigation, which, in order to effect the ascent, requires a greater supply of water in proportion to the height to be ascended, whilst the supply of water becomes less in the same proportion. Nor does the chain of mountains through the whole extent, where it divides the Atlantic from the western rivers, afford a single pond, lake, or natural reservoir.
Stran 242 - ... may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity...
Stran 253 - If the tax is not paid within ninety days after it is due interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the time of...
Stran 96 - A broad wheeled waggon carries 30 barrels or 3 tons, and pays for turnpike 3 dollars ; thus for each ton carried the turnpike company receives only one dollar. I will now suppose a canal to have been cut from Philadelphia to Columbia, and with its windings to make 100 miles, at 15,000 dollars* a mile, or for the whole 1,500,000 dollars.
Stran 265 - ... be it enacted by the General assembly that it shall be lawful for the...
Stran 261 - Putnam, judges, and all other acts, or parts of acts, coming within the purview of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed; and that this act shall be in force from and after the first day of January next.
Stran 266 - ... at the treasury of the Commonwealth. Such certificate shall shew, on the face thereof, that the loan was made under the authority of i his act.
Stran 245 - Act to amend the act entitled ' An act for clearing and improving the navigation of James river ' and for uniting the eastern and western waters by the James and Kanawha rivers...
Stran 247 - ... by law to borrow, as has not yet been borrowed ; and if the president and directors should find it necessary to the completion of the three first sections of the Work described in the second section of the act recited in the preamble to this act, that is to say, to render the Great Kanawha navigable from the falls to the Ohio ; to improve the navigation of James river from...
Stran 254 - ... such benefit shall exceed, in the estimate of the jury, the value and damages ascertained as aforesaid ; and the inquisition thereupon taken, shall be signed by the sheriff, and some twelve or more of the jury, and returned by the sheriff to the clerk...