Excerpt from Message of the Governor to the General Assembly: Extra Session, 1866 In January, 1852, the subject was brought for the first time to the attention of the Board of Trade of the City of Baltimore, and through their efforts mainly, resulted in an appropriation of on the part of the City. The Legislature also granted a return to the City of auction duties, amounting to about per annum, and Congress appropriated in the River and Harbor Bill of that year. These moneys have been judiciously expended, and have demonstra ted the practicability of deepening the Patapsco River to any required extent, with the assurance of permanency, when so improved. Commercially, the West and North West have the deepest interest in the extension of our great line of im provement, and, in a National point of view, it may be assumed that from the Tortugas to the Bay of Fundy, with perhaps a single exception, the Chesapeake Bay offers the most tempt ing point for the investment and anchorage of an invading squadron. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.