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Cumberland "to the nearest Battoe navigable water on the western
Side of the Allegany Mountain ". Johnson was made one of seven
supervisors of the road.]
VI. ANONYMOUS REMARKS.
To A 17cmbe so properly Laid out
at present. as it may some time hence. T have not seen the Bill, and my
situation is such as to prevent the from heillg Infortnd particularly con-
cerning its Contents, However T learn that the Commissioners appointed
to Lay off the Road, arc by it Limited to begin at Fort Cumberland. and
to proceed the best and Nearest way to Navegable Water on the \Iononga-
hela. No person presumes to doubt the Good Intention of tlle Framers of
this Bill, but perhaps the place Directed by the Law ( if they- are Confined
to a perticular place) tnay be Discovered to he Tnlproper. We have as yet
=a Probably wrincn to Johnson.
:'•a Sce Pickell, A New Chapter in tire Early Life of Washington (New ~-ork,
t85G), p. -p: and "The Life of Thomas Johnson °, in Maryland Historical
IYlaga-
ainc, Xl'. 3o-3s.
3t Probably Ballendine's subscription paper. See The Potomac Route Io the
Ihest. pp. I I tt, I I o.
The act referred to above, " An Act for emitting Bills of Credit and
applying Part thereof ".
AM. MIST. REV., VOL. %X\'III.-jT.
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