permitting a wagon to stand over night on the roadbed, and for locking wheels, except where ice made this necessary. Local authorities were ordered to build suitable culverts wherever the roads connected with the Cumberland Road. "Directors" were ordered to be set up, to warn drivers to turn to the left when passing other teams.[1] The rates of toll were ordered to be posted where the public could see them.[2] "Beacons" were erected along the margin of the roadbed to keep teams from turning aside. Laws were passed forbidding the removal of these.[3]
- ↑ Laws of Pennsylvania (pamphlet), p. 419.
- ↑ Laws of Ohio, XXVI, p. 41; Laws of Pennsylvania (pamphlet), p. 102.
- ↑ Id., XXVI, p. 41.
against the McAdam system, and to establish full confidence over the former plan of constructing roads.
"On the first day of July, the travel was admitted upon the fourth and fifth divisions, and upon the second, third, fourth, and fifth sections of the sixth division of the road, in its graduated state. This part of the line was put under contract on the eleventh day of September, 1826, terminating at a point three miles west of Cambridge, and embraces a distance of twenty-three and a half miles. On the twenty-first of July the balance of the line to Zanesville, comprising a distance of a little over twenty-one miles, was let."
