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YOI,. III. NO. 32.I at $6CO-*£fiUN I€ATIOX! the leFinCONTEMPLATED BRIDGE AT !!CONNERSVILLE. \nJJ{Pursuant to previous notice given in ;; 1001b *4The Watchman,” a very large number : Messr of the Citizens of Fayette County, met ! (0 rej at the ' Court House in Connersville, on jn orc Saturday the 7th inst., for the purpose of j; jze € ^ctevising the best ways and means by which to effect the erection of a Bridge^across the West Fork of White Watervriver, at err near the said town of Con*! Ha• leave j to dnfor tmersville, the county seat of said county— ; gjder; of me 1 neigh noemiiCiliWhen Elisha Vance, Esq. was called to the Chair, who in a short, but appropriate address, explained more fully the objects of the meeting. Whereupon base • Gabriel Ginn was appointed Secretary, ! also ] -and the following preamble and resolu- : of pa tions were unanimously adopted (except lUtate (he:4»h, which was adopted by a very large majority), to wit;‘‘Whereas there has been for somei :•days and now is, in circulation in this || Tl county, a Petition asking the Legislature ji the ( of Indiana to make a liberal approprin-1, a retfcion out of the Three per Cent Fund, for j; Inditthe purpose of building a Bridge across!; dentWhite Water river at Connersville, theL pach County Seat of Fayette, and also to des ir.g tigmite as near as possible, the precisei; are point on the river where said Bridge!: exet shall be erected. And whereas there are! pork now in circulation in said county of Fay*’! we ette, three other petitions asking the!! of h Legislature to locale said Bridge at three f hnrj different points, to wit: Near the Grave j; heei Yard on the lower side of the Town—at |! has the paint,where the line between ranges'; to.12 and 1.3-strikes'the river opposite thejjpriccentral part ot the Town—and at some;;don' convenient point between what is called !; opir -“McCano-s Upper and Lower Ford.’’—jlthai Therefore !| whi1st. Resolved, Thai it is the ?ense of!’this meeting that the said three petitions, asking particular locations, should hesuppressed and not sent on to the Legis-j! Mature. ij2d. Resolved, That the Members ofq11(he Legislature from this County, be re-fj quested to have inserted in a Bill, making jj C an appropriation from the Three peri Cent Fund, for the construction of thej Bridge above named,—a clause nomina-jl ting three disinterested Goronrissiouers.jl byname, whose duiy it shall be, to meet ij at Connersville on a specified day, and || after bemg duly sworn to discharge their jduty, faithfully and impartially, to view jiitthe three points named, and any othersHliPi;r that mav be named, for the erection ofh•* ' ^ | jsaid Bridge, and then to finally locate the u ^ precise point, where said Bridge shall be i: built—having nn eye in such location to ji the general accommodation of all theu roads that concentrate at Connersville.3d. Resolved, That our said Members ’be requested to proenre the insertion in jj , said Bill, of another clause, making it the ; c -duty of .the member of the Board of In- jb ternal Improvement, who superintends!; t; the construction of the White Waterjjd Canal, to send on a competent Engineer as so«n after the location of the Bridge as^practicable, for the purpose of making jjj all the needful surveys and estimates|!( prior to the letting of the job.4th. Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting, that said locating Commissioners be selected, one from the County Seat of Wayae, one from the County Seat of Union, arid the third from the jiVCounty Seat of Franklin.5th, Resolved, That the proceedings! of this meeting be draw n up in form, and signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and tha% they be published in -‘The Watchman”—and that the Chairman and I Secretary attend to sending on a copy of these proceedings, together with thej General Petition, lo our Representatives in the State Legislature.And the meeting adjourned.ELISI1A VANCE, Cbmn.G. GINN, Secy.1 i1li
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Connersville Watchman
Connersville, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 21, 1837
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