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1834.] January 19. — Four boats loaded with coal went down the river; two of them belonging to John J. Hoffman, sunk ten miles below, each loaded with 1,000 bushels.

Justices of the Orphans' Court: Thomas Cresap, John McNeill and George Hebb.

March 4. — Mr. Lantz presented a petition to the Legislature praying that body not to pass a bill incorporating the town. The bill was passed, how- ever, amending the act of 1815, and providing that seven Councilmen should be elected each year, and that they should elect one of their number as Mayor. The town was incorporated under the name and title of the "Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of Cumberland." The limits were fixed at "half-a- mile all round the town, to be computed and measured from the town lots on the outer edge or confines of the town proper, as located and settled by law, and by the plat already recorded among the land records."

April 14. — Many of the houses draped in black, in commemoration of the fire, one year previous.

June 24. — Notice received that Congress had appropriated $300,000 to repair the Cumberland Road. Work then went on, under care of Lieutenant Pickell, and the stone bridge of two arches, each sixty feet span, was completed.

Contracts for work were given as follows in the repairs of the Cumberland Road :

1st Culvert Section. — Jonathan Witt; 2d Culvert Section, R. A. Clements.

New Location. — Section No. 2, Gustavus Beall;