Petition seeking Incorporation of Monongahela Navigation Company.

• imprint_number: 1815.072
• title: To the Legislature ... inhabitants of [blank] county, request ... an act to incorporate ... the Monongahela Navigation Company ...
• sequence_number: 72
• year: 1815
• place_issued: Clarksburg
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Inhabitants of Harrison County.
• notes: Petitioners asked for an act to incorporate a company that would improve navigation on the Monongahela River northward toward Pittsburgh and the Ohio River; the Assembly took no action on this request during this session, as they were engaged in a larger discussion of how to accomplish such "internal improvements" with the need for a specific Act of Assembly..
  Only known copy, held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia, lacks colophon; as that copy came from Harrison County inhabitants, this petition was likely printed in Clarksburg, the county seat; but the single press there changed hands sometime in fall of 1815 – from Forges & Alexander Britton to Gideon Butler & Alexander G. McRae – leaving the publisher of this title in some doubt, so the indeterminacy here.
  
  
  
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