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thence to New Glasgow ami New MarUef, cross- 

 inir Kyo river:;al, the (Julf liini in Nelson r.ouiity. 



Route lor a turnpike Ironi some point on the 

 Penn^;\ivarlia line in Presion county, l>y iiran- 

 dotisviiie and Kinuwooil, to some point of the 

 Nortii Western turnpik(\ at. or near Evansville. 



Survey ol" the iMononiiaMela river anil the val- 

 Icv thereof, from the Pennsylvania line tothe jnne- 

 tiun of the West Fork and 'ry<i'arl''s Valley ri\ers 

 — of the West Fork lo William iJennett's in the 

 county of Lewis, :uid of the 'I'yyari's V^alley to 

 the town of Reverl(\\- in Raiidoljih county, wiih a 

 view to the improvement of the navi^'aiion ol saiil 

 Ktreani, or to the coiisirnciion of a rail road aloiiir 

 the valley of the iMoiionirahela river and one 

 of said branches, or ihroui^h iheintermediatc coun- 

 try. 



Route for a road fi'om the Kentucky line up the 

 Louisa Ibrk of Sandy river to Tazewell cunt- 

 house. 



Route for a road from Moorefieid to the Warm 

 S[)rmixs, or to Huntervillc. 



Survey of Dan River from its confluence with 

 Siaunton river to the town of Danvilli; ; of the 

 Siaunton riverfrom the same poim lothetowncjf 

 IJrookneal ; and of the Roanoke rivt-r from Rock 

 lai.ding to the cotiflueme of Dan and Siaunton 

 rivers, to ascertain their suscepiibility li)r steam- 

 boat naviiration. 



Route lor a road from Millborough to Coving- 

 ton. 



Survey of Simmon's Gap in the Blue Ridije. 



Route for a road from Elislia Sawyers' on the 

 Kanawha turnpike, below Coal bridge, to Har- 

 monf? lirry at the mouth of Little Guyandotte. 



Route for a turnpike frotn Winchester to Harri- 

 sonliurg. 



Route lor a rail road between Lynchburg and 

 Bu ford's Gap. 



Route for a rail road fl'oni Cartersville to Fred- 

 ericksburg. 



Survey of North River in Rockbridge, and of 

 Melierrln River above Ilicksford. 



Examination into the propriety of a proposed 

 change of location of a poriion of the Caraberland 

 Gap and Price's turnpike road. 



Hail Roads. 



Early in the session a bill was reported from the 

 Commiitee of Roads, prescribing general rejTula- 

 tions for the incorporation of rail road companies, 

 which passed into a law; and in conlormitv to 

 which, the charters of the new companies have 

 been framed — asalso those of formerly incorporated 

 companies in cases where the slate subscribed to 

 their stocks. This general act embracesall the pro- 

 visions of the most perfect charters, with various 

 modifications of a beneficial character; but its 

 principal advantages consist in the unill^rmity 

 which it will give lo future legislation on similar 

 objects, and the time which will be saved to the 

 General Assembly by conliirming to a well-defined 

 and uniform body of rules, instead of beiriir at the 

 nece.ssity of settlinfr general [irinciples, and minuie 

 details, in their deliberations on each separate act 

 of incorporation. 



Transportation nf the mails on rail roads. 



The general act in renrard to rail roads to which 

 we have above referred, empowers the lec-JBlature 

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I hereaOer to provi<le for the fransporlalion of tho 

 i mails on those roads, and to ensure to them a(kv 

 quate compensation lor that service. On the in-' 

 sertion of this provision in the bill authorizing- the 

 slate's subscription to the stock of the Louisa Rail 

 Road Company, (which passed anterior to thd 

 passage of the bill preseribinir general re<rulaiione,) 

 there was considerable; d(>bate. ami much adversi- 

 ty of sentiment. 1'he Louisa Rail Road bill, af? 

 it went fi-oni the House, contained no provision in 

 relation to the transportation of the mails. It 

 was returned fi-om the Senate with an amendment 

 making it the duty of the company, on bemg ap- 

 plied to by the postmaster-general, to convey the. 

 United States' mmls, and in case of a disagreement 

 between him and tlie company as to compensii- 

 tion, &c., on his application, the governor was au- 

 thorized to appoint three cnmnussioners to fix the 

 terms of transportation; and if the jrovernor should 

 not approve the ref)ort of the commissioneis, he 

 v/as to appoint tliree olher conniiissioiiers for the 

 same purpose — the company to carry the malls, if* 

 required by the postmaster-general, durinir the 

 [)encloncy ofthe conlroversv, receivinir for tfiaf ser- 

 vice payment at the rates finally fixed upon. This 

 amendment was warndy opposed in tlie house, 

 where it was argued that it would, in effect, place 

 the company at the niei'cy of the postmaster-ge- 

 neral, and subject the rail roads in this state to a 

 control which was not alloweii over those of other 

 stales. Two amendmenis were oH'eled by Mr. 

 Stanard, and negatived — one exempiinir the com- 

 pany fi-om the operation of the provision until a 

 similar arrangement should have been agreed to 

 by the rail road companies in contiguous slates — 

 the other withholding the power granted the post- 

 master-general by the Senate's amendment, until 

 the company should reflise to carry the mail for 

 the same compensation as might be ptud to rail 

 road companies in the contiguous states. An 



amendment to the Senate's amendment was offer- 

 ed by Mr. May and adopted, snbstitutin<r lor the 

 latter a declaration that it should hereafter be com^ 

 petent for the General Assembly, incase of a disa- 

 <ireement between the comjiany and the postmas^ 

 ter-general, lo pass a law empowering the gover- 

 nor to appoint commissioners lo fix the rates of 

 compeiisaiion, &c. But on t!ie question of agree- 

 intr to the Senate's amendment as amended, Mr* 

 Witcher opposed if, and moved to amend by siri-^ 

 kingoul the whole, and insertina: a simple declara- 

 tion, that it shall be compeierit to the General As- 

 sembly hereafier to provide by law for ihe trans- 

 portaiion of the mail for ade(|ua!e compensation^ 

 and lo prescribe h mode by which the same shall 

 he ascertained. This nmtioii Was adopted by a 

 large majority; and a similar provision inserted in 

 the act prescribing the general terms of rail road 

 charters, renders it applicable to all compaiiiea 

 coming under the purview of" that act. 



From tile (LonJnn) Farmers' lAIa^azirlej for March, 183?. 

 A NEW OM:AGlAOt'S PLANT. 



The celebrated botanist Candnlle has called the 

 attention of European agriculturisis to a plant cul- 

 tivated in Abyssinia and India, from the seeds of' 

 which an oil is extracted, which is used not only 

 in the preparation of food, but various olher nece«" 



