E 'v `~ N . _ _ .k v.!i y :. ~Y.~ I, . . - . {Continualfrom the - first page.] - financitd-tnimpetions at the Tieasitry. for 11 months only, and not fbr ~an entire fisetiryear, as formerly.— 'Froth the reports. made bylliiise elicere, it Will pear that the balance in the Tse 'treasury on. the let ,L last *as $124,482 82; the receipts into the, -Tree ry for _ _ 11 months-from the Ist Dec.. 183 ff hniirthe 31st Oct. 1831, exclusiie of loans, but including ihe pletniums paid upon loans, amounted to $709,030 03; the dis bursements for the same period, excluding the sums fag internal improvement fund and for internal improve ments, but including the sum of $10,425 18 paid to turnpikes and to commissioners for improving the public • ground at Harrisburg, amounted to $371,295- 00, leaving an excess of receipts, over ordinary expen ditures, of $357,734 43. For the disposition of fly's sum, and the Balance of $149,430 79, which remained in the Treasury on the Ist Dec. 1830, amounting in the aggregate to the - sum of $487,165 22-1 would re spectfully refer you to the several reports of the Audi tor, General, and of the Commissioners of the internal improvement 'film!. The magnificent enterprise in which Pennsylvania is no* engaged in the construction of her stupendous works of internal improvement; the magnitude and ex tent of her loans;": to enable her successfiilly to prose - 1 cute those works; and the necessity, that has occurred, to resort to lhe enactment of revenue laws, to secure the establishment of a permanent fund for the payment of interest; are all of them subjects in which the people have a deep interest, and about which they have a just claim to be correctly and minutely informed. The alarms and apprehensions, however unfounded, which the imposing grandeur, the extent, the diffusiveness and the supposed expensiveness of the works, as they enter into the grave discussions, and are introduced into the serious speculations of the day excite, and the --- grcrs misrepresentitnms to which they are not unfre quently most unjustifiably subjected, will furnish a sufli cienljustification, it is presumed, for submitting to the people, through the medium of the executive message, transmitted on the present occasion to their represen .: • :-.- . . ..f-accomit-ef---the-origin-ancLprogresi of the system of internal improvement adopted and prose cuted' in this state—and it is the more gratifying that the weaken °Centering upon the performance of that part of my duty to our common constituents, happens at a One- when the public works have been so far pro „greased in, that a large proportion of them are now in full operation, acid are giving earnest of extensive fu ture usefulness; when others of them, of considerable extent, will be in a condition for active - , business-earl . in the next season; and tvhen the residue of those un der contract will, it is confidently believed, be finished and in operation in all the next season or early in the summer of 1833. . - To make the subject plain and intelligible to every is - my - 'earnest desire, and for that purpose it .w be necessary to commence with the movements of the people themOolves, to which, it is believed, the - scheme of improvement is indebted for its origin, and to enter somewhat minutely into the legislation of the State, whiCh succeeded those movements, commencing with that which took place in the session of 1826, and trading it down 'to the present time. Although surveys and examinations had been directed •in some parts of the State, and - some of them had been actually made, and arrangements preparatory' to the commencement ofa system of improvement were in progress; yet it is believed that the celebrated Canal Convention which assembled at Harrisburg in the Month of August, 1825, gave the first impulse to public sentiment in favor of commencing a system of internal improvement, within the State, upon an enlarged and extensive scale. By that convention, composed of 113 members, represent ing -46 counties, and combining as much talent, re spectability of character, and there is reason to believe, as much' genuine patriotism as could be found in the same number of iadivideals, any where; resolutions were adopted declaring it, among other things, to be the opinion of the convention, "that the improvement ofthe commonwealth would be best promoted and the foundations of her prosperity and happiness most se curely established by opening an entire and complete communication from the Susquehanna to the _Allegheny and Ohio, and from the Allegheny to Lake Erie, by the nearest and best practicable route, and that such a work ta indispensably necessary to maintain the char acter and standing of the State and to preserve he: . strength and resources." Other resolutions were passed by the convention,in.which they expressed their views - iniTahttion.. - to the manner in . which the public. works • :onght -- 10. resecuted, 414.-- And so entirelyclid pub lic opinion at that period coincide with the views of the convention, in reference to the propriety of making; in the language of the resolutions, "a vigorours and united exertion for accomplishing without delay the connexion oflho - Eastereend - Western waters, 1 - that at the very next session of the General Assembly an act was passed, entitled "an act to provide for the commencement of a canal to be constructed at the ex pease of the State, and Lo be styled "Ile Atmusylvania Canal," (approved the 25th February, 1826,) author ising tke commissioners appointed by a formet act inunedidtely to legate and contract for making canal itr aral other works necessary thereto, the, „ river Swatara , at or near Middletown, to or IT to a point on the east side of the river Susquehanna; etipe site the mouth of the river Juniata, and from Pittsburg • lathe mouth of the Kiskiminetas, and also as soon as they should deerri it expedient and practicable to con. struct a navigable feeder of a canal from French creek to thesummit level at Conneaut lake, and to survey and locate the route of a,canal from thence to Lake Erie, and tie sum of $300,000 was appropriated for carrying the provisions 'of the act into effect. And by act of thafirst April of the same year, the Governor was antlairised to borrow, on the credit of the corn ` toonwealth, the sum of $300,000, to be vested in the coMmissioners of the internal improvement fund, to be applied to the construction of to much of the Pennsyl vania canal at was then authorised by law to be made or constructed. In pursuance of the provisions of the aneral acts just recited, there were in that year (1826) lid under Contract bythe board of canal commissioners tiventy and ap half miles of canal on the Susque : kennl - ina.4 on the Allegheny river, making a total of 46 and mohair miles—the disbursements for the construction of which for that year, incleding prelim inary surveys, dm amounted to $141,731 38. • "Tkut legislative effort of the seseion 1820; laid the &imitation of a s,ystelh of internal iniproiement, which, • as might easily. , have tooeti foreseen; could not fail ulti • matelyloleas o. the expeediture of laige nco tin the , of the Ste tefiir that object: No alarm very appears to kave*en excited in the public egad to regard-to what had, takenalace, but ..such on ti racy was the.calm and silent atrptiescence *OO "I the people, thetlit •the Weet-rling sesoon ni NM WM EMIPE==I ____. ... ~-.,---.. .--- ----- , r 'i I A , ) ' )1 '. ".' - WM 1 1 - 1 ,6 4 ' : kr. .0 I a 11. .6 .itl, l_ t j ir.• Er. 1 30-mN ig -4J 46 _ __. , _ _ , __, ._. __ th•ple g islature, another act was passed and approved I by the Governed' on the Bth April, 1827, entitled "iin act to provide, fig the further extention of the Pennsyl vania canal"—by which the board of cairnl commis siXers was authorised and required to locate and con tract for mating , a canal up the valley of the Juniata from the eastern section of the Pennsylvania canal to a point at or near Lewistown—also a canal, locks'and other works necessary thereto up. the valley of the Kiskiminetas and the COliemaugh from the western section- to • a point at or near. Blairsville—and also a canal, locks and other works necessary thereto up the valley of the Susquehana - , from the eastern section of the Pennsylvania canal to a point at or near the town of Northumberland—also to commence operations on the feeder from French creek to die summit level at Conneaut lake, and to contract for so much as might be adaptfd to either of the routes coetemplated for connecting the Pennsyliania canal with lake Erie, for which latter object the sum of $lOO,OOO was appropria ted.: The act, further directed, that if it should appear, after suitable examinations, that it navigithle canal could be constructed:between a point at or near Philadelphia or at. Bristol, or any intermediate point between Bristol and the head of tide water and a point at or near the borough of Easton, then with the consent of the Gov ernor the board of canal commissioners were authori zed, during the then ensuing season, to locate and con-- tract for making aTortion of said-navigable communi cation, the, expense of which should not exceed $lOO,- 000. Numerous other surveys and examinations were -authorised to be made, and the sum of $1,000,000 was appropriated to he applied in the mahner and for pur poses mentioned in the act. In pursuance of the, di rections contained in the act just recited, there-were put under contract in that year 1.8 miles of canal on the Delaware from Bristol upwards; 40 miles on the Sus quehanna from the eastern division to Northumberland; 451- miles on the Juniata from its mouth to Lewistown; 61 miles between Blairsville and Pittsburg, and 9 miles of the French creek feeder: making an aggregate of 1621 miles of canal; the disbursements on account of which for that year amounted to $931,975 91. I have - been tamswticiflar in iefei r ins tin the s . err al works directed to be put under contract by the act of 1827, because it was the commencement or a scheme of diffusive and unconnected works. of improvement-, and without expreSSing any opinion with .regard to the wis dom of the Measure (which at this time would be alto gether unavailing).i would simply refer those, who now object to that course of improvement and insist that the leoislation of 1831 in reference to our public works should have been arrested, to that period as the one at which a successful intervention to stay the fitrther pro gress of the public works might have been attended with consequences of a less injurious character than could have been the case, at any. time since. Whether the 'policy adopted by the legislature, in passing the act. of 1827 was sound or otherwise is not now the question. The people sustained it, and evinced their satisfaction with the measure by again electing a majority of repre sentatives to the General Assembly, favorable to a con tinued perseverance in further extending and prosecu ting works of internal improvement; and on the 24th March, 1828, another act was passed, entitled "an act relative to the Pennsylvania canal and to provide for the commencement of a Rail-road to he constructed at 'the expense of the State and to be styled the Pennsyl vania Rail-road." By this last mentioned act the board of canal commission authorised to con tract for making canal, locks ta.?a,V if*ther works from the commencement of the-Pennsylvania canal, at or near the mouth of the river Swatara, to Coluiiibia, in Lan caster county, front Lewistown to the highest point expedient and practicable for a canal, on the Juniata; from a point at or near Northumberland to Bald Eagle on the West Branch; from Northumberland to the N. York State line on the North Branch; from a point at or near Taylor's ferry to Easton; and from Blairsville to the highest point expedient and practicable for a canal on the Coneinaugh; - providing, however that only ten miles from the River Swatara to Columbia; not more than 25 nor less than 20 on the West Branch, and not more than 45 nor less than 15 miles, of each of the other sections, _should be put under contract during that year. The . Rail-road across the Allegheny moun tain was directed to s he - located, &c. with a view of connecting the Juniata and Conemaugh sections of the Pennsylvania canal; and the Rail-road from Coluinhia to-Philadelphia was 'directed to ho put under contract within that year, with a view to its completion within two years or as soon thereafter as practicable; the 'act anthoriSed further examinations atid'surveysend wham of two millions ofdollars. In virtue of the provisions of this act, were put un der contract in 1828 ten miles un'l an half of the French creek feeder, 26 and an half inilt;'s of canal .frete_Blairsville_up.thc. Conemaugh, 45. miles on the_ Juniata, 23 on the . West Branch, 45 miles onthe North 81704 1 35 and an half on the Delaware, at.d 10 miles 4),7:Middletown and Columbia, making in the wh01e1.95 miles and an halfof canal; 40 miles and an halfof Rail-road formation were also put under coat tact between Columbia and Philadelphia and the disburse ments required for that' year amounted to the sum of 2,795,612 dollars and 24 cents. The act of 24th March, 1828, was followed by that of the 22d of April 1829, entitled "an act relative to the Pennsylvania canal and rail-road," directing the canal commissioners to cause so much of the contracts alrea dy made . upen the different lines of canal and rail-ways to be completed within that year as should be practica ble, and requiring them to enter into contracts for the execution of those sections on the Delaware diviiion of the Pennsylvania canal between Bristol and Eastoq,and the sections of the North BMnch division between Nor 'thumberland and Nanticoke Falls which had not yet been courented, and to complete the same if practica ble within that yeas; and the sum of $2,200,000 was directed to be borrowed and appropriated to the sever al objects contemplated by the act. The works put der contract in pursuance of the directions of this act, were pi. miles of canal on the Delaware, and 9 .miles on th 6 North Branch, division; amount ofdisbursements, required for that year (1929) was $8,738,545 92 for canal and rail road purposes. From the foregoingexposition of the course of legis. lation thatobtained from 1826 until the close of the year . 1829, it will be seen,. thatmxtensive section's of canal & railpad formatien were authorized to be put under contract during that period, and:that large appropria:. tions were necessarily'' called for from year to year to carry those .eolitntets into execution; that during and until the close of the administration Of my predecessor, .420 miles ofcanal,acsorifirigte the reports of the board of canal commissioners ' . but actually attempting to 422/ Milt* and .404:inilesor rail road*Piation, had beets` Pitt Oder contract,- which tame- 'required, ae will be howtl ltereafferi.and . still require thk disbursenro l d nearly the whole anunint (,e the large sums of Money musnx th have hitherto been borrowed from year , year; for internal iMprovement purposes, but SO paFtial were the majority of the people to their favorite - project of the internal impilivement of the State, that it was not until the unpropitious and unfavorable course of things which occurred in the summer of 1829, when the credit of the commonwealth became - depressed, and the.con fidence of capitalisti and of monied institutions had been shaken in regard to the sufficiency and ability of the fund pledged for the payment of interest, when perma nent loans could not be obtained . and money could with difficulty be borrowed on temporary loan to answer the 'pressing emergencies of the State, tuio when the late executive was reduced to the necessity of requiring a special session of the legislature to relieve the common wealth from the embarrassments lAtieli were pressing upon it on every side, that any uneasiness or alarm was discoverable on their piirt; nor had any opposition to a progressive system of improvement until then nutnif;!st ed it elf by petition, or in any shape other than by the negative votes of tnembers of t halegislature constituting the minority in either house. Tt \w as this unpropitious state of the - commonwealth's atlitr.s that induced the .message of the 14th of January, I 8:30,.t0 the two thin- sea, exhibiting the state or indebt.edness' of the corm mit wealth and pressingapoa them the urgent necessity of ktaktiug a fond for • the payment of interest which should 40- bot h amprt and perManent. 'Phis Measure.&:as a gain earnestly pressed in the last annual messagelO the legislature, and in that accompanying the return of the hill of the 21st March last entitled "an act, to continue the improvement of the State by canals and rail roads" to the house of representatives. - Whatever may have been the effect of these,seve.ral messages, one thing is certain, that in a very short time after the first °Rhein had been read in the two houses capitalists and monied institutions vied with each other as to which of them should obtain the State loans; high premiums were offered and obtained, tinder the comic-, tion and in .the entire confidence that an adequate fiend for the punctual semi-annual payment of the interest would be established, the connw m weadth has ever since been enabled to borrow all sucliattims , as her 'exigences f m - rem - tim - v - ritne — fetptired; upott-i4nwhighly-aaVauta ireous to her financial operations awl flattering to the state of her credit, and the sum of $1186,989 71 has since been paid into the Treasury in the shape of pre. miums upon loans. To this prosperous condition, in which the credit of the State has been placed, is to be, ascribed the delay for the necessity of calling upon the people for their contributions to supply the interest fund the_premiums paid upon loans having, until the last semi-annual payment of interest, which became tine on the first of Angust last, so far aided in replenishing' that fund as to enable it to meet the entire payment of 'the interest as it became due. On the day last mentioned, however • a deficiency in that fund amounting to the sum 0f826,176 10 occured, for which sum became necessary to resort - to the general appropriations for the construction of canals and rail roads as authorised by the act of the 30th of Mtireli last. As however this mode of supplying the interest fund by premiums to be paid upon loans cannot be expected to continue, and would under_ any circumstances, be too capricious and unsafe to be relied upon; and as there is reason to be lieve, that increasing deficiencies willoccur, in the in- terest fund, fors time, until the tolls arising from the public works shall be sufficient to supply them Ow infor mation in Million to which the general assembly is re ferred to the report of the commissioners of the inter nal improvement fund) it will become necessary tosupply those deficiencies by a resort to the revenues authorised to be collected by the several acts of assemblv,entitled an act assessing a tax on personal.ptoperty, to be collected with the county rates and levies, for the use of the com monwealth, and "an act to increase the county rates and levies, for the use of the commonwealth," passed re spectively the 2.5 th day of March last. _ No honest citizen of Pennsylvania can desire a re currence of the difficulties and embarrassments which pervaded the financial transactions of the State in 1829, especially those which pertained to it - vorks of inter- nal improvement; and I trust that *none will repine at the payment of a Kiln so small as that which the acts' referred to will require of him, when he must feel assu red, that what he pays is to aid in promoting the , public welfare, to advance the prosperity and hap-1 ' piness of the people, "t.o maintain the character and standing of the State in which he lives, and to preserve her strength and resources," and when he is assured that no other exaction will be re quired --of him in reference to the objects which now create-the-necessity for- tho-domand ,--uor,w illthoseatow. demanded of - him be .required for a longer period thtin the five years to which the several acts referred to have limited them. Every other state engaged in the im provetneht of its intermit condition, has, it is believed, resorted to taxation for the payment of the interest up- . on its loans the State of New York, to a heavy 'tax up onthe salt manufactured within the State,and'even the comparatively young state of Ohio, which but the oth er day was a howling wilderness, bikwhieli' is acquir ing inunortallionor, in consequence of the splendid and magnificent works of internal improvement now con structing within it, whose citizens are laboring under all the:disedvantages attendant upon an almost. entire ah settee .erthe circulating medium, and all the other dal culties and privations Mei to anew Country,from the very commencen 1 tentef RS ‘v tibltc orks,resorted to taxa tion to meet the interest uporiloans for their construction. I have every confidence in my fellow-citi;zens, that as loon as they shall be convinced of the necessity of the measure, and kribwinguas I do, the jealousy with which they watch . overand guard their individual. credit, and that with which their patriotism should inspire them in regard to the integrity and safety of that of the State, their objections to making a small eontribution annual ly, for a short period, towardS an object which has pro gressed too far to 'be abandoned, which- ha's' cost too many millions to be now arrested in its successful ca reer, and suffered to go to ruin, and which promises too much future, uspfiiluess in elevating the character of the State, developing its reqoproes, and increasing the prosperity and adding to the wealth and happiness of its 'people, to be suffered to languish for the want of means so inconsiderable as those required by the re venue bills, must entirely 'cease. The responsibility incurred. in recommending such a measure is felt in all itsforee ; the• necessity - -of the measure to sustain the credit of the State, will, it is bejieved, ensure its justi 4cation;_ but should it be otheilise, i have only to.say That the man who would prefer an ephemeral populari. ,ty to the solid - interests of his country, is unworthy of Itithlic confidence, and : his, claims to public &trot are 'certainty not to be envied. • : ' - ~ • - . ',By an sat ofassembly, entitled '.`An act to - Authorize a loam to 'defray the expenses of the'PennsylVanja ca 'nal awl- rail road;nd contintiti for'it - forthettinnti P4E, n4i - t to incorporirte this turtmosiblls, tip the bank of Penn. svrvania," pagAvi ate - TAth . et Ma reh.l.Slin tbatiti4itii. MEM MIMI =la 3Q, . tiOn-wastequlred to lend, and the Governor was anth4.- rimed tg borrow on the credit of the,Cornmonivealth; :C sum or sums of money, in the -vithoie mot exceeding:. 84,000,000 at a preinium„ of five and an half per cent.,. to be paid into the , State treasury, in instalments mentioned -in the act, and bearing an interest of five: per cent: pet' annum, to be applied to canal and rail road purposes; and by the same act the bank of Penn. is required to loan to the Comnionwealth $1,000,000 annually, for the term of three years from and Wier the first day of January, 1830, bearing interest at the ran:- of five per cent. per annum, provided that. the same' shall be required by law - during any one of the three' years mentioned in the act. And by another act, pass: ed on thdt27th of March; in the same year, entitled "an act making further appropriations fin• canals and rail _ . Toads," the board of canal commissioners Was directed to.cause so much of the .contracts already made upon lie different lines of the canals and rail roads as conld be done, to be completed in that year, and they were enjoined in no way to enter into new contracts tbr.the extension of any line of canal or rail road, except tbr the etzekiii adarn .it-Or near Johnstown, and• OW" constriction or a canal and ireelSttry %collo; t?oin thence to section number fitly-seven, on the Ligonier line, for the purpose of introducing the water into the Ligonier line or the western division of the line. Several sm.- yeys were (hared by this act, and s►nn of s34so,:i:i•' was appropriated to•be applied to aid in the pay Ment of the temporary loans .theretotiire made, and to canal and rail road purposes, and to he paid out of the loans of that year. In pursuance of this act three and a hall miles of canal,sbelow Johnstown, on the western divi sion, were put under contract; and the sum of s3,la; ,- 844 08 was disbursed in pursuance of the directi o ns of the last ►mentioned act. It may be proper here to reinarli,that the amount ac tually. paid to the board of canal commisSioners, up to the 21st of December, 1830, the, date of their last //re port, was $0,2.16,566 46. Of this sum, 84,255 v(as disbursed in building a dans across the Coneinaugh, and constructing three miles and an halt' of canal for, intro ducing the water into the Ligonier line in the neigh bor4too&of-Johnst oW-ny- anit4.l-0482i8t 1 .- 46 - we re - iii: imirsed in satisfaction of contracts entered intu in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1820. _ The last act of legislation that took place in relation to this all important subject; was thZaer of the last se:.- sion, cat Ned " an act to continue the improvement of the State by canals and rail roads," passed the twenty first day of' March last, requiring the canal commission ers to complete, as ,soon as practicable, the whole of the sail - road - between the rivers Selniylkill and Siisque henna, 'beginning at the inte reect ion of Vine and Broad' streets, in the city of Philadelphia, and thence extend ing to the end of the canal basin at Columbia, in the county of Lancaster," towards the completion of which. during the present year, the sum of ti1,t600,000 was speci fically appropriated. They were also directed forth with to complete-the krojected canal between the west ern termination of th " lid road Itt. Columbia, and the . best point of junction's la the, Pennsyl TIM canal at junction' la in the cot iAI - CifDauphin, including, an a queduct over the river Swatara, and out let locks to the river at . Columbia, air the expenses and cost of which sevend works, the suet of $116,170, was 'Teal, cally appropriated. They were also directed to coni mence forthwith, and prosecute without. delay, a rail road over and across the Allegheny mountain, :from the basin at Hollidaysburg, in the . county of fa Johnstown, in the county Cambria. Also to continence and prosecute without delay, the extension of t e Juniata division of the Pennsylvania canal from the town of Huntingdon, in the county of Hunt ingdon, to the basin. at Hollidaysburg, the same county, either by canal or slack water navigation, towards the expenditures of which rail road and canal or :-:lack water Ilarigation, (hiring the present year,the sum ofs7oo,ooo,was specifically appropriated. They were also, required to extend, without delay, by canal and slack water navigation, the west branch di vision of the Pennsylvania canal, from the Munn , dam in the county of 'teeming, •to the mouth of the Bald Eagle creek, in the same county, towards the expenses whereof, during the present year, $200,000 were spe cifically appropriated. Also, a water communication between the town of Lewisburg, in Union county, and the nearest and best point on the west branch division of the Pennsylvania canal, for which the sum of $25.. 000 was specifically appropriated. Also, the north branch division of the Pennsylvania canal, from the pool of Nanticoke dam, in the county of Luzerne, by .cAinal-er-slack-wafeiLlitivigationi-not-taexcliffeeit— miles in the same county, tower& the exnenses where of; during the present year, the sum of $lOO,OOO was specifically appropriated. They were also directed to make a canal or slack water navigation from the Alle gheny river, at the mouth of French , creek, and•up-that creek to the French creek li!eder; towards the expenses whereof; the present year, the sum 4860,000 was specifically appropriated. Also, to make _a canal or slack water navigation, from the Ohio river, - at the mouth of Big Beaver creek, up that creek to the town of New Castle, towards. the expenses whereof; during the present year,•the sum of $lOO,OOO was specifically appropriated. All of which several specific appropria tions eI.A directed to - bepaid out. of the loans directed by said act * to be made. And the Governor was au thorized to borrow, on the credit of the commonwealth, the sinn of $2,483,161 88, to be applied to the several objects enumerated in said act. In pursuance of the direction of the act just recited, the board of canal commissioners have put under contract the Co himbian and Philadelphia rail road in length 81i miles, the whole cost of which e including steam engines, and necessary works, is estimated at a sum of 62,297,120 21. The Alleghe ny portage-rail road, the whole length of which, from the lower' end of the basin at Johnstown, to the lower end of the basin at Hollidaysburg, 36 miles 221 perches, and the ostimathd cost thereof; including steam engines. and all necessary Works, is 61,271;718 18, The north branch division of Vitt. Pennsylva-. nia canal, from the foot of the Nanticoke dam, a distance of lit Miles 316 perches, exclusive elite feeder, 3:4niles 305 porches slack water, and 13 miles 11 perches of ..oanal, the estimated cost of which is $220,594 56. The Lycondng line or WOFt branch division of the Pennsylvania Camel from Money dank to the mouth of the Bald Emile, consisting o 1" 11 miles 12 perch es of canal, 10 miles and 56 peones, slack water, together 41 Rules 68 perches, the estimated cost of which is $5,587 54., The Lewisburg Cross Cut, 200 perches is length, and to come. $22,090. The Frankstown hue, oonsioting of 23 mikes 15d perches ofCanal, and 15 miles 266. perches towing path or slack Water, making together 38 miles' 102 perchei in length, the whole cost or which is estimated at the sum of $598,181 56„ The Beaver division extending (torn the Ohio river at the mouth arthe Big ltidavercreek to the town of New Castle, con noting of 16 miles 224 perches of slack water, yul 8 miles 10; porches of canal, making together 34 mites Nu perches. in. length, and eniinated ost $33017 84, The Eastern divi- Von' consisting of Ermilos 227 perches, betWeen. ' and Columbia and outlet leeks atColumbia, the estimated met., of which 41 . 40133,840 52; and 'the Trench creek. dinsi n ipdhtin, the Allegheny ribber, at the Mouth of Fretsdi CreekOtrukulithat . creek to the French creek *lda ) ennsieting of 47 mileti . 36 perches ortil A ck water navigation, and s.Mileslo2 7 pottibes [K r roilehmion bal (44 M scr c . o 0 II CM "\. ;
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