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Passed Feb 11,1829
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A Report and Resolutions, in relation to the Improvement
of the Navigation of the Pocomoke River.
THE Committee on internal improvement, which was in-
structed to inquire into the practicability and expediency of
improving the navigation of the Pocomoke river, and more
especiallv that section thereof which lies between the town
of Snow-Hill, in Worcester county and the line of the state
of Delaware, and of connecting the same, by a navigable
canal, with Sinepuxent Bay, and also to inquire into the
practicability and expediency of improving the navigation
of said river by a canal across the southern extremity of
Somerset county, to the waters of Tangier Sound, have con-
sidered the several matters of this reference, and beg leave
to present the following report: —
From a view of the topography of that section of the
state into which the committee have been instructed to in-
quire, and from information to be relied upon, they are con-
vinced that the river Pocomoke passes through a very fer-
tile region, covered with valuable timber, a considerable
distance between the town of Snow-Hill, in Worcester coun-
ty, and the line of the state of Delaware; and they are in-
duced to believe that the navigation thereof may be im-
proved to an extent very beneficial to the internal commerce
of this state, to the augmentation of the public capital, and
to the immediate interests of a numerous and enterprising
population.
And from the same sources the committee are of opinion
that the connexion of that division of the said river, by a
navigable canal, with the waters of Sinepuxent Bay, would
very essentially tend to draw into the trade of the Chesa-
peake, not only that vast amount of produce, which is now
constrained to seek an outlet through uncertain and dan-
gerous channels, and exposed, through all the hazards of the
Atlantic coasti, to find a market without the state; but also,
and more especially in time of war, to supply our navy
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