Natchez Trace Parkway Survey: Letter of the Secretary of the Interior Transmitting in Response to Senate Resolution No. 222, a Report of a Survey of the Old Indian Trail, Known as the Natchez Trace, Made by the Department of the Interior, Through the National Park Service, Pursuant to an Act Approved May 21, 1934, with a View to Constructing a National Road on this Route to be Known as the Natchez Trace Parkway |
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Page 42 - His Catholic Majesty will permit the citizens of the United States, for the space of three years from this time, to deposit their merchandize and effects in the port of New Orleans, and to export them from thence without paying any other duty than a fair price for the hire of the stores; and His Majesty promises either to continue this permission, if he finds during that time that it is not prejudicial...
Page 96 - President, and three members of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads of the House of Representatives...
Page 99 - States is hereby authorized to cause the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates to be made of the routes of such roads and canals as he may deem of national importance in. a commercial or military point of view, or necessary for the transportation of the public mail...
Page 53 - These men were as dirty as Hottentots; their dress a shirt and trowsers of canvass, black, greasy, and sometimes in tatters; the skin burnt wherever exposed to the sun; each with a budget, wrapt up in an old blanket; their beards, eighteen days old, added to the singularity of their appearance, which was altogether savage.
Page 50 - That the secretary of the treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of the receivers of public monies of the several land offices shall be settled, pay three per cent, of the net proceeds of the lands of the United States...
Page 34 - July, 1801, it was, among other things, agreed, that the contractor should receive "for every complete ration issued at the Chickasaw Bluffs, at Nashville, at Bear Creek, on the Tennessee, or at any other place on the road between Nashville and Bear Creek, fourteen cents ;" and " for every complete ration issued at any place in the Chickasaw or Chocktaw country, on the road between Bear Creek and Natchez, eighteen cents and one half cent...
Page 35 - America, to lay out, open, and make, a convenient wagon road through their land between the settlements of Mero district, in the State of Tennessee, and those of Natchez, in the Mississippi territory, in such way and manner as he may deem proper ; and the same shall be a highway for the citizens of the United States, and the Chickasaws.
Page 137 - ... the cavalry on the right, under Forrest. Johnson's division, of Lee's corps, also became engaged on the left during the engagement. The line advanced at 4 pm, with orders to drive the enemy into or across the Big Harpeth River, while General Forrest, if successful, was to cross the river and attack and destroy his trains and broken columns.
Page 83 - ... for his men which the government had, it appeared, forgotten to do. In a letter to the governor of Tennessee, under whose authority the order of the Secretary had replaced him, he says, ' I have, however, from the necessity of the case, determined to keep some of the tents, and to march the men back in as good order as possible ; and I will make every sacrifice to add to their comfort. I have required of the contractor here twenty days...
Page 98 - States be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause the marking of the said road to be continued from the boundary line of the United States to the frontier of New Mexico, under such regulations as may be agreed upon for that purpose between the executive of the United States, and the Mexican government.