Download or read book Report of the Committee on Roads Bridges and Inland Navigation Relative to the Canals and Rail Roads of the Commonwealth written by Pennsylvania Committee on Roads and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Roads, Bridges and Inland Navigation, Relative to the Canals and Rail Roads of the Commonwealth: Read in Senate, May 24, 1839 Upon reading the report of the Board of Canal Commrss1oners, dated March 11, 1839, your committee were struck with the anxious desire evinced, throughout that report, to impress upon the public mind the belief that, through negligence and inattention, upwards of one million and a half of dollars was necessary to render the public improvements adequate to transact the business which may and should be done upon them. If this were the fact, it would be right that the Legislature, and the whole people should know it; but evidence of a contrary character, sufficient to satisfy your committee that the amount required for repairs was greatly exaggerated, had been developed b ami nation has only pre viously rendered evident thousand dollars had not been expended 'in repairing the improvements, when your committee passed along the lines and found them in a condition (ex cept in a fewplaces that will be hereafter noticed, ) to accommodate the most active business that has evér been transacted upon our canals. This, then, was indubitable evidence, that'it did not require one million and a half of dollar8, -to render them adequate to transact the business Which may and should be done upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
