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 The summary for the Western Section was:

The total estimate of the board, therefore, for the entire work was as follows:

Under the head of "General Considerations" the board treated minutely the proposition presented by the acts incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and the treatise is one of the most interesting studies of early commerce between the East and the West. The great population and area concerned on both sides of the Alleghenies, the increased value of real estate which would follow the