456 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 10,
a new terminus in the harbor of Baltimore, thereby se-
curing to the people of this State, their just share
of the benefits of their past sacrifices in construction of the
canal; and furthermore, if it can be demonstrated that these
munificent results can be accomplished without taxation to
the people or increased indebtedness of the State. On such
hypothesis, it is assumed that the legislation needed for such
consummations will be promptly awarded by your Honorable
Body.
In proof that all this may be done, and that boats of three
hundred tons burden may be made to float their cargoes from
Cumberland into the deep waters of the Patapsco at Locust
Point; your memorialist here avouches the judgment of
four engineers of your own State, in whose competency as
engineers, and integrity as men, the whole people of Mary-
land will place implicit faith.
It remains then only that your memorialist shall show
how the large cost of these improvements may be met with-
out taxation of the people, and without an addition to the
public debt of the State.
Programme of a plan for improvement of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, and for its extension to the harbor of
Baltimore. Speculations to show that the interests held by
the State of Maryland in the canal, will furnish ample basis-
of credit on which to borrow money for the enterprise.
It is of vital interest to the State of Maryland and to the
City of Baltimore, that the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal shall
be enlarged and shall be extended to Locust Point as its
Eastern terminus —and that a double-track freight railroad,
to be owned and controled by the Canal Company, shall con-
nect the coal lands on George's creek and near the mouth of
Savage river, with the basin at Cumberland. These high
interests of the State and of her great city, require that the
canal, in its whole extent from Cumberland to the harbor of
Baltimore, shall be constructed on an enlarged scale that
will allow passage of boats freighted with three hundred tons.
It is claimed that by the use of the "new method," a nav-
igation of the present canal between Cumberland and George-
town for boats of three hundred tons burden may be secured,
at a cost of two million dollars. Whereas that by any other
plan, the same effective result could not be reached at a less
cost than eight million dollars. It is claimed, moreover, that
the new method, besides being less costly, will secure better
supplies of water for navigation, anc will render the whole
line of the canal for ever safe from wash and overflow in time
of flood.
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