Chapter VIII

_State Authority prevails--The Road surrendered by Congress--The
erection of Toll Gates authorized--Commissioners appointed by the
States to receive the Road--They wrangle over its bad condition,
and demand that it be put in thorough repair by Congress, before
the States will accept it--Old and familiar names of the
Commissioners--The Road accepted by the States._

At the session of the year 1831, the Pennsylvania Legislature passed a bill, which was approved April 4th, of that year, by George Wolf, governor, the preamble to, and the first, and part of the second, and all of the tenth sections of which read as follows:

"Whereas, that part of the Cumberland Road lying within the State of
Pennsylvania is in many parts in bad condition for want of repairs,
and as doubts have been entertained whether the United States have
authority to erect toll gates on said road, and collect toll; and as a
large proportion of the people of this commonwealth are interested in
said road, and its constant continuance and preservation; therefore,