Chap. 125.—JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the Congress of the
United States to make an Appropriation to the Dismal Swamp Canal.

Approved February 23, 1875.

Whereas the Dismal Swamp canal, as part of the continu-
ous inland naviyation of the Atlantic states affording a
direct and safe avenue for commerce between the states,
both in peace and war, and connecting the naval sites of the
United States with the products of the states necessary to
create and sustain a navy as the dignity and business growth
of the country may hereafter require, deserves, from its mili-
tary and commercial importance, the favorable consideration
of Congress; and whereas it was constantly used by the
United States government in the late war, without compen-
sation, and returned to the company thereafter in a ruinous
condition, it would seem, in view of these considerations,
proper that some recognition of its claims for aid in its res-
toration should be had by congress; therefore,

Resolved by the house of delegates (the senate concur-
ring), That the application of ihe Dismal Swamp canal
company to congress for such aid, meets our warm support
and endorsement, and that our senators and representatives
in congress are requested to urge its claims.