CANAL MEETING, IN WASHINGTON


COUNTY.
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Pursuant to notice, very large number OF
the citizens.of Washington County, of both po-
itical parties, assembled at the Court House,
in Hagers Town, on Saturday the 4th of April.
Gen. Otho H. Williams was called to the chair,
Doctor Charles Macgill, and R. M. Tidball
Esqrs, were appointed Vice Presidents, and
Benj., F. Yoe, and George w. Smith, Esqrs.,
Secretaries The object of the meeting hav-
ing been stated by the chairman, to be, to take
into consideration the propriety of calling an
extra session of the Maryland Legislature, for
the purpose, when convened, of making an adj
ditional appropriation, for the completion ofthe
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Cumberland.
On motion Of John Thompson Mason, Esq. the
President of the Canal Company, Mr.. Tho
mas, was called upon to address the meeting.


This gentleman accordingly, addressed the
meeting much at large on the subject of the