Chapter V

_Pennsylvania Grants Permission to Make the Road Through Her
Territory--Uniontown Restored, Gist Left Out, and Washington,
Pennsylvania, Made a Point--Simon Snyder, Speaker of the
House--Pressly Carr Lane, a Fayette County Man, Speaker of the
Senate, and Thomas McKean, Governor--A Second Special Message From
President Jefferson, and a Second Report of the
Commissioners--Heights of Mountains and Hills--On to Brownsville
and Wheeling--An Imperious Call Made on Commissioner Kerr._

An Act authorizing the President of the United States to open a road
through that part of this State lying between Cumberland, in the
State of Maryland, and the Ohio river.

WHEREAS, by an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled "An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio," the President of the United States is empowered to lay out a road from the Potomac river to the river Ohio, and to take measures for making the same, so soon as the consent of the legislatures of the several States through which the said road shall pass, could be obtained: And whereas, application hath been made to this legislature, by the President of the United States, for its consent to the measures aforesaid: Therefore,