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ANOTHER INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT CONVENTION. 185
After making known the call of the convention, and earnestly inviting " every
city, town, village and election district in every county, to send a delegation
friendly, to the great works of internal improvement in the State," the
address urged the expediency of the most efficient and vigorous prosecution,
and completion of the canal to Cumberland, and of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to the Ohio River, and the policy of an ample appropriation by
the State of Maryland, for these purposes. The Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, as early as the 3d of March, memorialized the Legislature in relation to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, setting forth that, should
the Legislature in their wisdom think proper to grant further aid to the
canal, it was a matter for consideration whether the interest of the State
would not require that a part of said appropriation should be expended in
continuing said canal to Baltimore; but now, as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was included in the application for an appropriation, no particular reference was made in the address to an extension of the canal to the city.
The recommendation of the address was promptly responded to. Meetings
were held in nearly every section of the State, and delegates appointed. On
Monday, the 2d of May, 1836, a large number of delegates from most
of the counties of the State, and the Cities of Wheeling and Pittsburg,
convened in Baltimore, and organized the Internal Improvement Convention by the election of Frisby Tilghman, of Washington County, President,
and William B. Wilmer, of Kent, Dr. Shaw, of St. Mary's, General Tobias
â– Stansbury, of Baltimore County, and Colonel Samuel Moore, of Baltimore
City, vice-presidents, and George Cooke, Doctor Watkins and John Kettle-
well, secretaries. After the transaction of some important business, the
convention adopted a series of resolutions declaring that it was the duty of
Maryland to furnish such aid as may be in its power towards the completion
of the public works then in progress ; that in the opinion of the convention,
the motives of policy which originated the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, still demanded their vigorous prosecution ;
"that it is most essential to the prosperity of our people that the means be
supplied for the speedy completion of the canal to Cumberland, and in aid of
its extension to the City of Baltimore; and that that work should be sustained
and promoted by the Legislature upon the plan of rendering it the property
of the State, and of bringing it to the City of Baltimore by the most eligible
route." A committee consisting of one member from each county, represented
in the convention, and two from the City of Baltimore, was appointed to
attend at the City of Annapolis, for the purpose of presenting to the Legislature the resolutions and views of the convention, and of affording such
facilities as might be deemed necessary to accomplish the object contemplated.
This convention adjourned on the 3d of May, and was the last convention
held in relation to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
On the 20th of May, the Legislature assembled. On the 25th, the joint
committee of the two Houses to whom the subject of internal improvement
| Title | History of Maryland - 3 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000216 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ANOTHER INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT CONVENTION. 185 After making known the call of the convention, and earnestly inviting " every city, town, village and election district in every county, to send a delegation friendly, to the great works of internal improvement in the State," the address urged the expediency of the most efficient and vigorous prosecution, and completion of the canal to Cumberland, and of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to the Ohio River, and the policy of an ample appropriation by the State of Maryland, for these purposes. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as early as the 3d of March, memorialized the Legislature in relation to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, setting forth that, should the Legislature in their wisdom think proper to grant further aid to the canal, it was a matter for consideration whether the interest of the State would not require that a part of said appropriation should be expended in continuing said canal to Baltimore; but now, as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was included in the application for an appropriation, no particular reference was made in the address to an extension of the canal to the city. The recommendation of the address was promptly responded to. Meetings were held in nearly every section of the State, and delegates appointed. On Monday, the 2d of May, 1836, a large number of delegates from most of the counties of the State, and the Cities of Wheeling and Pittsburg, convened in Baltimore, and organized the Internal Improvement Convention by the election of Frisby Tilghman, of Washington County, President, and William B. Wilmer, of Kent, Dr. Shaw, of St. Mary's, General Tobias â– Stansbury, of Baltimore County, and Colonel Samuel Moore, of Baltimore City, vice-presidents, and George Cooke, Doctor Watkins and John Kettle- well, secretaries. After the transaction of some important business, the convention adopted a series of resolutions declaring that it was the duty of Maryland to furnish such aid as may be in its power towards the completion of the public works then in progress ; that in the opinion of the convention, the motives of policy which originated the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, still demanded their vigorous prosecution ; "that it is most essential to the prosperity of our people that the means be supplied for the speedy completion of the canal to Cumberland, and in aid of its extension to the City of Baltimore; and that that work should be sustained and promoted by the Legislature upon the plan of rendering it the property of the State, and of bringing it to the City of Baltimore by the most eligible route." A committee consisting of one member from each county, represented in the convention, and two from the City of Baltimore, was appointed to attend at the City of Annapolis, for the purpose of presenting to the Legislature the resolutions and views of the convention, and of affording such facilities as might be deemed necessary to accomplish the object contemplated. This convention adjourned on the 3d of May, and was the last convention held in relation to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. On the 20th of May, the Legislature assembled. On the 25th, the joint committee of the two Houses to whom the subject of internal improvement |
