Report on the Survey of a Rail Road Route Connecting the City of Baltimore With Drum Point, on the Patuxent River, 1868

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Excerpt from Report on the Survey of a Rail Road Route Connecting the City of Baltimore With Drum Point, on the Patuxent River, 1868: By Col. George W. Hughes, Chief Engineer Henry M. Warfield, Esq., President Board of Commissioners for the Survey of a Rail Road Route from Baltimore to the Mouth of the Patuxent River, Sir: The General Assembly of Maryland during the January session of 1867, passed the following joint resolution, (No. 9, ) assented to the 12th of March of the same year: "Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and required to appoint one Commissioner from Anne Arundel county, and one Commissioner from Calvert county, and one from Baltimore city, who shall be authorized to employ an engineer to make a survey and to estimate the cost of constructing and equipping a railroad from Baltimore city, through Anne Arundel county to Drum Point, in Calvert county, or to some other point in said county, near the mouth of the Patuxent river, and report to the General Assembly as soon as practicable the result of said survey and estimate, together with the reasons that exist for the construction of said road and the advantages that will accrue to the State by the building of the said road. "Resolved, That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for making the said survey, and the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, payable to such persons, and for such amount as may be required by the Governor." Under the authority of the above joint resolution, and for the purposes therein set forth, the Governor appointed Henry M. Warfield, of the City of Baltimore, B. Allein Welch, of Anne Arundel county, James T. Briscoe, of Calvert county, Commissioners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.