are said in the work under consideration, to have been constructed with great permanency, over wet and marshy ground the materials having been so amalgamated as to lie like a board upon the soft earth. The foregoing investigation, the Senate will perceive, has been accompanied with considerable labor. The lateness of the period at which most of the answers were received, prevented an early report, and if the information obtained, is not as full as was expected of your committee, the defalcation is chargeable neither to want of zeal nor industry. 'Table, No. I. TURNPIKE ROADS. LIST of the corporate titles of all the Turnpike Road Companies, authorised by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in the order in which the Acts were passed. List of the Bridges, authorised by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, to be erected by companies in the order in which the several acts of incorporation were passed. Lehigh, near town Northampton, (1806, March 28) Delaware, near town of Milford, (1814, March 28) Susquehanna, N. E. branch, near town Northumb'd. Susquehanna, at Harrisburg, (1812, Jan. 17,) Monongahela, at Pitttsburg, (1816, Feb. 17,) Big Beaver Creek, opposite the town of Brighton, Schuylkill, at the Falls above Philad. (1817, Jan. 9) Tioga, at Tioga Point, or Athens, Delaware, at New Hope, incorporated by law, Susquehanna. at Marietta, 1816 April 26 3 Fayette. Susquehanna, W. B. at Lewisburg, (1816, Mar. 15) 1816 do 1 Allegheny. Philadelphia. Susquehanna. Lancaster. do 28 1815 March 11 March 26 Juniata, near Millerstown, Susquehanna at Sunbury Montgomery & Ches. 1816 July 16 Huntingdon. List of the Lock and Canal Navigation Companies, authorised by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in the order in which the several acts were passed. No letters patent issued. Dauphin, Lancaster. †These companies and individuals commenced operations without letters patent under their acts of incorpora tion. Table, No. 5. BRIDGES. LIST of bridges, the companies for erecting which have received letters patent, shewing the rivers and streams over which they pass, the years in which they were severally commenced and completed, their length and width, elevation above the usual level of the water, and whether roofed or not, the number of arches by which supported, the materials of which the piers arecomposed, as also the amount of individual and state subscriptions to the capital stock, the subscription price of the shares; and the amount of the debts of the companies. BRIDGES. |