SIMON SNYDER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
P. C. LANE,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved, the ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
THOMAS M’KEAN.
TENTH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
Communicated to Congress February 19, 1808.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:
The States of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia having, by their several acts consented that the road from Cumberland to the State of Ohio, authorized by the act of Congress of March 29, 1806, should pass through those States, and the report of the commissioners communicated to Congress with my message of January 31, 1807, having been duly considered, I have approved of the route therein proposed for the said road as far as Brownsville, with a single deviation since located, which carries it through Uniontown.
From thence the course to the Ohio, and the point within the legal limits at which it shall strike that river, is still to be decided.
In forming this decision, I shall pay material regard to the interests and wishes of the populous parts of the State of Ohio, and to a future and convenient connection with the road which is to lead from the Indian boundary near Cincinnati, by Vincennes, to the Mississippi, at St. Louis, under authority of the act of April 21, 1806. In this way we may accomplish a continuous and advantageous line of communication from the seat of the General Government to St. Louis, passing through several very interesting points, to the Western country.