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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1872
Volume 190, Page 386   View pdf image (33K)
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386 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 14,
Harrisburg, the great railroad centre of the North, occu-
pying to Washington the same position that Richmond does
on the South—both situated upon the meridian line passing
North and South through the metropolis of the nation. Un-
til recently, Washington had but one line of railroad, that
running East, through Baltimore, to the Atlantic cities,
Philadelphia, New York and Boston. By the enterprise of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the Pennsylvania
Central, that city will shortly have railroad communication
South by the Alexandria and Fredericksburg Railroad to
Richmond, and by the Metropolitan Railroad West, through
Cumberland to Cincinnati and St. Louis. The equally im-
portant line to the North, to complete the communication
with the four points of the compass, remains unimproved and
unprovided for. The object of the people whom we have the
honor to represent, is to open this line of communication, for
the double purpose of affording to the General Government
and the rich and populous section North and North-west, the
most speedy and direct communication with the Capital, and
at the same time to give railroad accommodation to an enter-
prizing district of country as yet without those facilities.
It is to this section of the State that the people of the na-
tion are indebted for the father of the railroad system of the
country. The county in which Philip B. Thomas was born
has yet to see and hear the wound of the American engine,
which his sagacity called into being.
The Legislature of Maryland is now petitioned to give to
this section (the last in the State to claim it) the benefit; of
this great improvement; an improvement which has conferred
countless millions upon other sections, and in which this
asks to participate.
Local interest, public use, and natural consideration, alike
prompt the petition.
And as, in duty bound, &c., Ac.
CHAS. W. HOOD,
WM. C.POLK,
JOS. H. HOBBS,
JOHN A. DORSEY,
DAVID CLARK, *
RICHARD DORSEY, of C,,
AARON CHADWIOK,
D. P.GAITHER,
A. J. F. DA VIS.
Committee.
Which was read and referred to the Committee on Cor-
porations.

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