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The width sufficient for this purpose is computed at 40 feet between the side drains, and 36 feet of which is to be paved. As all these routes are mostly through thick forests, the following preparations previous to ex- cavation, will be necessary.
Grubbing and clearing the width of the road foundation 2 . . 40 feet
Chopping and clearing 10 feet on cach side of the foundation .20
Chopping down the timber for 100 feet on each side of the road to prevent accidents 200
The quantity of excavation and embankment is com- puted from the angle of a cross section of the road which has been taken at every station. Where the sec- tion slope is less than twenty degrees, the black slope of the excavation is computed at sixty degrees. But where the section slope exceeds twenty degrees, and. the ground is firm and rocky, the back cutting slope is supposed to stand nearly perpendicular; and in all ca- ses an excavation of thirty feet wide is computed to be sufficient to make the road forty fect wide, besides a drain or ditch of four feet wide on the upper side to con- vey the water to the culverts and stone drains, which are to be placed under the foundation of the road at convenient and proper distances, to keep it firm and dry; and where necessary, a drain is to be excavated on each side for the same purpose. Embankments- are computed to have a slope of eighteen inches base to one foot perpendicular, and are allowed in all cases, except where the excavation in the road will fill an embank- ment within one hundred feet of it ..
The bed of the road being properly shaped and pre- pared, is to be paved with broken stone 16 inches deep and 36 feet wide, the whole to be done on the M'Ad- amized plan.
Of this width a rail road with double tracks will occu- py, viz: 3 feet for an outside walk, 4 feet for each set of tracks, and 5 feet between, then 16 feet and a M'- Adamized turnpike by the side of it the remaining 20 fcet.
Among the various plans for a rail road, that at the Mauch chunk coal mines is perhaps the cheapest, and at the same time answers for a very extensive business. It is con tructed as follows: The road being prepared, oak sleepers, 7 feet long, are laid across the road, bed- ded on stone, and level with its surface, and 4 feet apart, into which are keyed the side rails of white pine, 4 by 6 inches, and 16 feet long, and placed parallel, 3} feet apart, (which is the width between the wheels of the carriages); on the inner edge of these are plates of rol- led iron; 12 inches wide by { inch thick, for the wheels to run-upon. A single track thus made cost 3,050 dol- lars per mile.
But a more substantial and durable railway is recom- mended. Prepare stone supports (or sleepers) about twenty inches square, and about two and a half feet. long, with the upper end of each properly cut, and dril- lel eight inches deep to receive a wooden plug. Place these stones in four parallel lines, and five feet apart, in a direction of the road, the upper or cut end of each to be level with the pavement of the road. On these, place the side rails of locust. timber 6 by 10 inches square, and 15 feet long, to be secured to the stone supports by inch bolts, driven through into the wooden plugs into the stones .- Upon the inner edge of thicse side rails, of each set of tracks, plates of rolled iron two inches by half an inch, are seoured by spikes or screws (counter sunk ) once in about three feet-the whole to be done in the best manner.
The following is an estimate of one mile of this de- scription of double tracks, viz:
4224 stone supports, cut, drilled and set, at 70 cents each,
1418 pieces of locust timber prepared and de- $2,956 80
livered at 75 cents cach, ·1,063 50
30 tons of iron plates drilled and delivered at $100,
3,000 00
4 tons of bolts made and delivered at $150,
1 ton of spikes do do
200 00
Amounting (inclusive of workmanship) to $7,820 30
The following estimate shews the distances, average cost per mile and cost of each route from the junction of the lines near the Conemaugh, across the mountain by way of each summit to each of the proposed basins.
ON THE JUNIATA. Routes by Robb's creek summit ..
1. Route by way of Newry to the basin near Frankstown, 32 miles 19 chs. at $10,- 543 48 per m. $339,895 34"
2. Route by Newry to the basin near Poplar run, 28 miles 33 chains, at $10,652 05.per m. 302,655 56
3. Route by the south side of the Blue Knob to the Cove basin, 26 miles 66 chains, at $10,571 65 per mile, 283,584 46
Route by the Sugar run summit.
1. Route by the north side of Sugar run to the basin near Frankstown, 29 miles 483 chains at $8,391 19 per mile, $248,431 80
3. Route by the north side of turnpike to the basin near Frankstown, 33 miles 22} chains at $9,559 59 per mile, 318,155 25
3. Route by the south side of turnpike to the basin near Frankstown, 33 miles 34} chains at $10,225 24 per mile, 345,185 74
From the junction of the lines down the Conemaugh to Johnstown, 17 miles 40 chs. at $9,500 per mile,- 166,250 00'
To the average cost per mile add the estimate cost of one mile of rail way, viz. $7,820 30, and the amount will be the average cost per mile on either of the above. routes.
All which is respectfully submitted, NATHAN S. ROBERTS, Chief Engineer.
[The Legislature adjourned on the 25th ult. having passed 223 Laws and Resolutions, of which 80 were pri- vate interests, viz: 29 for relief of revolutionary soldiers. or their families; 28 to authorize the sale of real estate; 9 divorces; 4 legitimatizing children; 1 changing a name; and 9' for individual relief. The 143 public acts we have arranged under different heads as follows :.
TITLES OF THE PUBLIC ACTS,
Passed by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, during the Session of 1828-9.
Internal Improvements.
An act anthorising a Loan for the continuation of the Pennsylvania Canal and Rail Road and for other pur- poses.
A further supplement to the act, entitled,. an act to enable the governor to incorporate a company for ma- king an artificial road, beginning at the west end of tlie Lancaster and Middletown turnpike road, at or near Middletown, from thence to the line of William M'Clay's land, adjoining the upper boundary of the borough. of Harrisburg, in Dauphin county.
A further supplement to an act authorising the gov- ernor to incorporate the Schuylkill Valley Navigation. Company.
A further supplement to the act, entitled, an act in- corporating the Hanover and Carlisle Turnpike Road Company.
Resolution relative to the Shamokin Dam.
An act authorising a state road to be laid out from the town of Butler, in Butler county, to the town of Beaver, Beaver county.
An act relative to the expenditure of certain money already appropriated to the improvement of Penn's Creek in Centre and Union counties and making furtlier appropriations.
· Resolution relative to the contractors on Pennsylvania
600.00 Canal through Grant's Hill.
1829.]
TITLES OF THE ACTS-1828-9.
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Resolution relative to the surplus water of Dam, No. 1, on the Kiskiminetas river.
A further supplement to an act, entitled an act to enable the governor of this Commonwealth to incorpo- rate a Company for making an artificial road from Lan- caster, through Elizabethtown to Middletown.
A supplement to an act authorising a loan for the continuance of the Pennsylvania Canal and Rail Road, and for other purposes, passed the 18th day of Decem- ber, 1828.
An act authorising the laying out of certain state roads in Green, York, Cumberland and Schuylkill counties.
An act supplementary to the act, entitled an act to extend the charter of the Washington and Bedford turn- pike road companies, and the Washington and Pittsburg turnpike Companies, and for changing the time of hold- ing their elections.
An act authorising Daniel Cameron to erect a wing dam in the river Susquehanna.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act authorising the governor to incorporate the Mahoney navigation company.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act authorising the governor to incorporate the Susquehanna and Lehigh canal company.
A further supplement to the act, entitled an act for laying out, making, and keeping in- repair, the public roads and highways within the commonwealth, and for laying out private roads.
An act authorising the laying out of a state road from Kiskiminetas salt works, by way of Greensburg and Mount Pleasant, in Westmoreland county, and Connels- ville and Uniontown, to the Virginia state line in Fay- ette county.
An act to authorise William Henry and John Jordan, jr. to erect a bridge over Analomink river, also called Broadhead's creek in Northampton county.
An act to authorise the governor to incorporate the Wilsonville and Lackawaxen turnpike road and bridge company.
An act to repeal the act authorising a road to be laid out from New Castle, in Mercer county, to Bassenheim Furnace, in Beaver county.
An act relative to the appointment of canal commis- sioners.
A supplement to an act, entitled' an act authorising the governor to incorporate the Allegheny and Conewa- go canal company, and for other purposes.
An act authorising the laying out a state road from Dillsburg, in the county of York, to the town of Ber- lin, in Adams county.
An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act to au- thorise the governor to incorporate a company tu erect a bridge over the river Allegheny, at the place where the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike road crosses the said river in the county of Venango, and to revive an act to authorise the governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a company for erecting a bridge over the river Delaware near the town of Milford, in the county of Wayne, passed the 29th day of March, 1823, and to revive and continue in force the same, so far as regards the said bridge over the Allegheny river.
An act to authorise the governor to incorporate the Salem and Dyberry turnpike road company; the Athens and Troy turnpike road company; the Spring House and Sumneytown turnpike road company; the Pittsburg Farmer's and Mechanic's turnpike road company; and to revive the act, entitled an act to incorporate the Pitts- burg and Beaver turnpike road company.
An act to authorise the governor to incorporate the president, managers, and company, of the Reading, Reamstown, and Ephrata turnpike road, and of the Union and Pittsburg turnpike road.
An act authorising the laying out of certain state roads. An act to authorise the governor to incorporate a com - pany to erect a bridge over the Juniata river at the town of Perrysville in the county of Mifflin.
An act relative to the Pennsylvania Canal and Rail Road. [ Returned by the governor with objections.]
Resolution relative to the Pennsylvania Rail Road.
An act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled an act to authorise Samuel Bell, of Berks county, toerect a toll bridge over the river; at or near his present ford -. ing place, and opposite a road by the name of Lardner's ~ Lane.
An act to incorporate the Mount Carbon Rail Road Company.
An act extending the time allowed Henry H. Burr for erecting a dam in the Juniata river, opposite to Mifflin- town.
An act authorising a state road to be laid out from Landisburg, in Perry county, to Mifflintown, in Mifflin county.
An act authorising the governor to incorporate the Lick Run Rail Road and Coal Company in Lycoming county.
An act relative to thic Pennsylvania Canal and Rail Road.
A supplement to an act granting a sum of money to open and make a state road from David Hunter's mill in- the county of Bedford, to intersect the Waynesburg; Greencastle and Mercersburg turnpike road on the North Mountain, at or near Samuel Tom's,in the county of Franklin, passed the 2d day of February, 1828, and. for other purposes.
An act relative to the state road between Landisburg, and Carlisle.
An act authorising the laying out of a state road from Path Valley in Franklin county, to intersect the Road from the Burnt Cabins to Drake's Ferry in Huntingdon county.
Resolution relative to contractors on the Canal and Tunnel through the city of Pittsburg.
An act relative to the state road between the west end of the Harrisburg bridge and Petersburg in Perry county ..
A further supplement to an act, entitled an act to au- thorise the governor to incorporate a company to make a lock navigation on the east branch of the river Schuyl- kill, called Little Schuylkill, passed on the 20th day of March, 1826 .-
A supplement to an act authorising the governor to. incorporate the Mill Creek and Mine Hill Navigation and Rail Road Company, approved the 7th day of Feb- ruary, 1828.
A further supplement to an act, entitled an act for erecting the town of York, in the county of York, into a borough, for regulating the buildings, preventing nui- sances and encroachments on the commons, squares, streets, lanes and alleys of the same, and for other pur- poses therein mentioned.
Resolution relative to a road adjoining the Pennsyl- vania Canal in Hemlock township, Columbia county ...
An act to prevent the erection of batteries in the riv --. er Susquehanna ..
A supplement to an act, entitled an act for the pre- servation of wooden bridges within this commonwealth, passed the 19th of March, 1824, and for other purposes .-
An act to authorise Stephen Duncan and Jolin D. Mahon to erect a toll bridge over Shearman's creek in. Perry county, at the mouth of said creek.
An act to authorise the governor to incorporate the Lycoming and Tioga Turnpike Road Company.
.An act to authorise the laying out a state road from Gettysburg in Adams county, to a point at or near the summit of the Conococheague Hill, in Perry county ..
A further supplement to an act, entitled an act au- thorising the governor to incorporate two companies for making an artificial road from the city of Pittsburg, thro' Butler and Mercer, to Meadville.
A further supplement to an act, entitled an act to au- thorise the governor of this commonwealth to incorpo- rate a company for erecting a bridge over the river Le- I high, near the town of Northampton.
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TITLES OF THE ACTS-1828-9.
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A supplement to an act, entitled an act to protect the public in the full benefit and enjoyment of the works constructed for the purposes of inland navigation.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act supplementa- ry to'the several acts to incorporate .the Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania, passed the 3d day of March," 1826.
An act appointing commissioners for effecting an ar- rangement between the states of Pennsylvania and New. Jersey, for the mutual use of the waters of the river Del- aware for canal and other purposes.
An act authorising the commissioners of Berks coun- ty to build a toll bridge over the river Schuylkill, near the borough of Reading, in the county of Berks, at or near the place where the road leading from Reading to the city of Lancaster crosses said river.
An act relative to the road tax in the townships of East and West Findley, in Washington county.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act to enable the governor to incorporate a company to make a turnpike road from' the northern termination of the York and Conewago turnpike road to the west end of the Harris- burg bridge.
City and County of Philadelphia.
An act supplementary to the act to incorporate and endow the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
An act for erecting Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in the city of Philadelphia, and St. James' Church in the same city, into two separate corporations.
An act, entitled a supplement to an act, entitled an act to protect the property of the Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of Philadelphia at Fair Mount, and the purity of the Schuylkill water.
A further supplement to the act, entitled an act to in . corporate the district of Spring Garden.
An act supplementary to the act, entitled an act for the better employment, relief and support of the poor of the township of Bristol in the county of Philadel- phia.
An act supplementary to the act, entitled an act to in- porate the district of Southwark, passed the 18th day of April, A. D. 1794, and for other purposes."
An act providing for the election of an additional con- stable in the district of Spring Garden, and for other Purposes.
An'act relative to the opening of roads in the county of Philadelphia.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act to enable the governor of this commonwealth to incorporate a compa- ny for opening a canal and lock navigation between the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill through the southern, section of Philadelphia county, passed 12th day of April 1828.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act to incorpo- rate the Pennsylvania company for insurance on lives and granting annuities.
An act declaring Cohocksink creek, in the county of Philadelphia, a public highway.
An act vesting in the commissioners of the Kensington district of the Northern Liberties all and every the pow- er of regulating the markets in said district to be holden on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday.
An act to incorporate a company for erecting a bridge over the river Schuylkill at or near the falls in the coun- ty of Philadelphia.
An act to incorporate the Franklin fire insurance com- pany of Philadelphia.
An act relative to insurance companies and agencies of insurance companies not chartered by this state.
An act in relation to the paving of private streets, courts and alleys in the city of Philadelphia.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act to authorisc the regulation of the streets, lanes and alleys within a part of Penn township in the county of Philadelphia.
An act to incorporate a company to make a jail road through the northern section of the county of Philadel-
phia from the river Delaware to the Schuylkill, or to terminate at a junction with the Columbia and Philadel- phia Rail Road, to be called the "Northern Liberties and Penn Township Rail Road."
` An act to incorporate the Philadelphia marine rail-" way company.
Courts and Judicial Proceedings.
An act annexing part of the fourth district for the ap- pointment of justices of the peace in Ridgberry Town- ship, Bradford county to the 2d district in said county.
An act to repeat the second section of the act, entitl -; ed a further supplement to an act for holding special court of common pleas, passed 11th April 1825, and to revive the 2d section of the act passed 27th March 1823:
. An act to authorise justices of the peace of the coun" ties of Chester, Montgomery, Berks and - Schuylkill, to depute persons to serve process in certain cases of tres- pass and malicious mischief.
A supplement to the act, entitled,'an act limiting the time during which judgments shall be a lien on real es- tates, and suits may be brought against the surcties of public officers.
An act relative to the appointment and payment of the criers of the courts in this commonwealth.
A further suplement to the act, entitled an act to a- mend and consolidate, with its several supplements, the act, entitled an act for the recovery of debts and de- mands not exceeding $100, before a justice of the peace," and for the election of constables and for other purpos- es.
An act relative to the state penitentiary in the county" of Allegheny.".
An act concerning executors.
A further supplement to the act, entitled a supple: ment to the act entitled a further supplement to the act,'. cntited an act to alter the judiciary system of this cont- monwealth, passed the 8th day of April, 1826.
A'n act to validate the proceedings in a certain amica -.. ble'action of partition in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county, and to authorise the commissioners' of Lancaster county to purchase certain real estate.
An act authorising the discharge of trustees under a" domestic attachment, on the settlement and confir- mation of their accounts, and to compel such trustees to' settle their accounts.
A further supplement to an act, entitled "an act to reform the penal laws of this commonwealth."
A supplement to the act entitled an act for the assign- ing of bonds, specialities and promissory notes.
A resolution relative to Purdon's Digest.
An act to remedy the loss of certain dockets and rec- ords of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county.
An act authorising the depute surveyors of Fayette and Allegheny counties to transcribe certain records of their respective officers.
An act to enable the prothonotary of the supreme Court of the Eastern District to copy certain records.
An act changing the time of holding the courts in the counties of Franklin, Bedford and Somerset.
Incorporation of Towns.
A supplement to an act, entitled, an act to erect the town of Milton, in the county of Northumberland, and the town of Butler, in the county of Butler into bo- roughs.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act to erect the town of Washington, in the county of Washington, into a borough.
An act erecting the village of Fallston, in the county of Beaver, into a borough.
· A further supplement to an act, approved the 18th". day of March, 1811, entitled an act to erect the town of' Northampton, in the county of Northampton, into a bo- rough, and also to an act erecting the towns of Alleghe-" ny, Birmingham, Franklin and Northumberland, into boroughis, and to give effect to the act incorporating the borough of Elizabeth-town, in the county of Lancaster, passed April 14th 1828, and for other purposes.
1829.]
REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS AND PAPERS.
295
An act authorising the appointment of commissioners to fix upon a proper scite for the seat of justice in Jef- ferson county.
An act providing for the inspection of spirituous li- quors in the borough of Marietta, and for the inspection of spirituous liquors and wood at the landing place of the Conestoga Navigation Company, near the city of Lan- caster.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act to annex part of Centre county . to the county of Lycoming, passed the 27th day of April, 1819.
A supplement to the act incorporating the borough of Mercer, in the county of Mercer, passed the 28th day of March 1824 .:
An act erecting the town of the Northern Liberties of Pittsburg into a borough.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act, to incorpo- rate the Presbyterian congregation of Athens, in Bed- ford county, and to incorporate. the Evangelical Luth- eran congrégation of St. Matthews, in the city and vici- nity of Philadelphia.
. An an act supplementary to an act, incorporating the the town of Birmingham, in the county of Huntingdon into a borough; to incorporate the Lancaster water com- pany, and for other purposes.
. An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act to erect the town of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, into a borough.
An act incorporating certain religious societies.
Highways and County lines, lunds &c.
An act to repeal the law declaring Shearman's Creek in the county of Perry, a public highway.
An act declaring Beaver Run, in Lycoming county and Blacklick Creek in Indiana and Cambria counties public highways.
An act declaring Pine Creek, Big Bushkill Creek, and Broadhead's Creek public highways.
An act declaring Little Brokenstraw creek a public highway.
An act declaring Conneaut creek in Crawford county, from its junction with French creek to John Marvin's Mill, a public highway.
An act appointing commissioners to run and mark certain lines dividing the counties of Lebanon and Dau- phin.
An act authorising the division of certain lands in the township of Springfield, in the county of Bedford.
An act appointing commissioners to run the line of the counties of Lycoming, Bradford and Tioga.
An act granting compensations to Josiah' Lewis and to the executors of Thomas Livezey, for certain lands certified to Connecticut claimants in Bedford, one of the 17 townships in the county of Luzerne.
An act relative to the patenting of lands.
An act to provide for additional clerk hire in the of- fice of the secretary, of the land office, and the auditor general's office and for other purposes.
Resolution relative to preventing damages to the pub- lic lands in the county of Erie'. Elections.
Supplement to the act, entitled an act to direct the manner, time and place of holding elections for electors of president and vice president of the United States.
An act to authorise the election of an additional con- stable in Connoquenessing township, Butler county.
An act authorising the election of a constable in the borough of Pottsville, in the county of Schuylkill, and for other purposes.
An act relative to the election of Constables in cer- tain townships.
An act to repeal part of the act authorising the elec- tion of additional constables in certain townships there- in mentioned, and for other purposes, passed the 28th. day of Feb. 1826.
An act regulating election districts,and for other pur- poses.
A supplement to an act, entitled an act to regulate the general clections within this commonwealth.
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