Post Roads in States.
The Senate resumed the third reading of the bill, entitled “An act to alter and establish certain post roads.”
On motion, to add the following after section third:
“And be it further enacted, That two post roads shall be laid out, under the inspection of commissioners to be appointed by the President of the United States, one to lead from Tellico block-house, in the State of Tennessee, and the other from Jackson court-house, in the State of Georgia, by routes the most eligible, and as nearly direct as the nature of the ground will admit, to New Orleans.”
It passed in the affirmative—yeas 17, nays 10, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Cocke, Dayton, Franklin, Jackson, Maclay, Nicholas, John Smith of Ohio, John Smith of New York, Samuel Smith, Stone, Sumter, Venable, and Worthington.
Nays.—Messrs. Adams, Bradley, Hillhouse, Logan, Olcott, Pickering, Plumer, Israel Smith, Tracy, and White.
And, sundry other amendments having been agreed to,
Resolved, That this bill do pass as amended.