Monday, December 30.
Another member, to wit: Christopher Clark, from Virginia, appeared, produced his credentials, was qualified, and took his seat in the House.
Road to the Ohio River.
The bill from the Senate to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, on the Potomac, to the river Ohio, in the State of Ohio, was read and referred to a Committee of the Whole on Thursday.
[This bill authorizes the President of the United States to appoint three Commissioners to lay out a road from Cumberland on the Potomac to the river Ohio, in the State of Ohio, to be four rods in width. The Commissioners are directed to make a report to the President of their proceedings, as well as the expense of making the road passable. The President is authorized to accept or reject the report in whole or part. If he shall accept it, he is then authorized to obtain the consent of the States through which the road may pass; and, having obtained such consent, to make a turnpike. Fifty thousand dollars are appropriated, payable first out of the proceeds of the reservation from the sale of lands in Ohio, and, secondly, out of the Treasury of the United States, the last sum to be chargeable to the preceding fund.]