STATEMENT Of the Affairs of the Monongahela Navigation Company, December 31st, 1846. 497,672 86 14,028 11 Stock Monongahela navigation company, 400 00 246,571 89 Cash, 658 00 Outstanding warrants, 6,667 15 5,800 00 243,967 15 Moorhead, Robertson & Co. 1,527 67 6,714 15 To be charged on the Monongahela Slackwater, on and after February 1, 1847. CLASS No. 1.-Forty cents per 1000 pounds. Copper of all kinds; confectionary; drugs and medicines; furniture; feathers; fruits not specified; furs, peltry and skins; glassware; hides, dry; hardware and cutlery; leather, dressed and undressed; lead, white, red and litharge; liquors, foreign; merchandize, not specified; marble, manufactured; oil, paints and dye-stuffs; oysters; paper of all kinds; queensware and chinaware; ropes and cordage; spices; steel; steam engines and machinery; tin and tinware; tobacco, manufactured; wool. Way freight 11 cents per 1000 pounds, per lock. CLASS No. 2.-Thirty cents per 1000 pounds. Agricultural products, not specified; agricultural implements, do.; ale, beer and porter; anvils; blooms; butter, bacon and beef; chair stuff, turned; copperas; coffee; cheese; cotton and cotton yarns; castings; dried apples and peaches; doors and blinds for steamboats, &c.; earthen and stone ware; fish; flax and other seeds; groceries, not specified; glauber salts; ginseng; hemp, oakum and flax; hides, green and salted; iron, rolled and hammered; lard and tallow; molasses; marble, sawed or in blocks; nails and spikes; old cordage; pork; powder; pitch, tar, rosin and turpentine; rags; saleratus; saltpetre; tobacco, leaf. Way freight 8 cents per 1000 pounds, per lock. CLASS No. 3.-Twenty cents per 1000 pounds. Ashes, pot, pearl, scorchings; cut stone; grind and mill stones and bur blocks; german clay and gypsum; hydraulic cement; lead in pigs and bars; plaster, paris; scraps and broken castings; spanish whiting and barytes; wheat and other grain; white or Louisville lime. Way freight 6 cents per 1000 pounds, per lock. On all articles not above enumerated, thirty cents per 1000 pounds. Steamboats, Keels, Flats and Flatboats. In addition to toll on cargo, $1 50 through-50 cents per lock. No boat shall be charged more than $1 50 per day, or $1 for a single trip to or from Monongahela City. All passengers and freights carried in any boat on the pools, to and from points between locks, shall pay the same toll as if taken through one lock, to be returned and paid as other way passengers and freights. Also, all freight and passengers taken on board or landed at any lock, shall be charged for that lock. No additional toll to be charged on boats laden with coal, coke, lime or sand descending, or on tow boats having in tow coal flats without freight or passengers. But no boat so laden shall pay less than 50 cents per lock. On all articles descending the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers, from any point more than five miles above the influence of the slack-water, in flats and flatboats not intended to return, the collector who clears the same shall, upon satisfactory evidence thereof, allow and make a reduction of fifty per cent. from the above rates. In the collection of tolls, all articles to be charged at their exact weight: but when not weighed, the annexed articles are to be computed as follows: Beef and pork, salted, rosin, oil, all kinds, per bbl. 280 lbs.; fish, salted, per bbl. 300 lbs. ; tar, (28 gall.) per bbl. 320 lbs.; barley and buckwheat, per bush. 45 lbs. ; corn, rye and seeds, of all kinds, per bush. 56 lbs. ; oats, per bush. 30 lbs. ; wheat, per bush. 60 lbs.; oysters, (shell,) per bush. 75 lbs. RULES AND REGULATIONS. I. All masters of steamboats, keelboats, barges or flatboats, laden with produce, &c. shall present to the collector at the first lock a manifest of cargo, so arranged as to enable him readily to calculate the tolls, containing, First. The name of each place on the river where any portion of such property was shipped, and of the place for which. it is intended to be cleared. Second. A statement exhibiting the number of boxes, bales, barrels, casks and various packages of which the cargo consists: the weight of all articles of property on which toll is charged by the ton, or one thousand pounds: the number of articles on which toll is charged by the number; the feet of each article on which toll is charged by the foot; and the brand and number of boxes in each separate lot of window glass. Third. A specification of the weight or quantity of each article, where a different rate of toll is charged on different articles, on which toll is so computed. And in case of the neglect or refusal of any master or owner to comply with the second and third articles of this regulation, the whole cargo shall be charged with tolls at the rate of those articles on board paying the highest rate of toll. II. The tolls shall be paid at the first lock passed by a boat, and upon payment thereof, the master of the boat shall receive a clearance on which shall be noted the weight of the different articles, the different classes to which they belong, and the total amount of tolls paid. III. The clearance shall be exhibited to the keeper of each lock before passing the same, and shall, together with a full and corrected manifest of the cargo be given up to the collector at the last lock if ascending; but in all cases the manifest descending shall be delivered to the inspector at Pittsburgh. IV. All way freight received shall be reported to the collector at the first lock after it is taken on board, and upon the tolls being paid upon it the collector shall enter it upon the clearance. V. In order to guard against frauds the collectors or inspectors are authorized to overhaul the cargo if they shall see cause to suspect the correctness of the manifest; and if the master or clerk of any boat shall make a false or fraudulent return by placing articles in a lower class than that to which they belong, or returning a less weight than he has on board, he shall pay triple toll for the entire cargo on board at the time. VI. A preference shall be given in passing locks to regular mail and passenger boats. VII. Every clerk of a steamboat making regular trips and carrying passengers, shall once per week, or as often as required, deliver to the collector at lock No. 1, a statement of all passengers conveyed on such boat and pay the tolls thereon. Said statement when required by the collector to be verified under oath or affirmation before an alderman or justice of the peace. VIII. All owners and masters of tow boats will be held accountable for the tolls on all boats which they may have in tow, and payment must be made in all cases before passing the first lock. And any tow boat taking a loaded keel boat into lock No. 1, without a manifest and classification from the inspector at Pittsburgh, shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars. IX. Each collector shall report to the board of managers the name and master of each boat, the cargo of which he has discovered to have been cleared for less than it actually contains, under circumstances giving rise to suspicion that a fraud upon the revenue of the company was intended. X. Every steamboat or other float passing on the Monongahela navigation shall, at all times during the night, carry a conspicuous light on the bow or forward end of the same; and for a non-compliance with this provision the owner or master of such boat or other float shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars. XI. No boat or other float shall load or unload or unnecessarily stop, lie by or detain in any lock, or within two hundred yards of any lock; nor more than two boats abreast for a distance of three hundred yards further above any lock, without permission of the lock keeper, under a penalty of FIFTY DOLLARS. XII. No boat shall be permitted to come within two hundred yards of a lock until the lock is ready; and the boats shall be passed through in the order in which they arrive at the locks, with the exception of mail and passenger boats, which shall have the preference. XIII. Masters and owners of boats shall in all cases be accountable for any damages done by such boats to the locks, gates or machinery connected therewith. XIV. The master of every boat intending to pass a lock, shall, upon arriving within one-fourth of a mile of the same, ring a bell or blow a horn to give notice of his approach; the neglect of this provision shall subject him to a penalty of five dollars. XV. All penalties for violating the above regulations shall be recoverable before an alderman or justice of the peace, as debts of like amount are now recoverable by law. WM. BAKEWELL, Sec'ry. J. K. MOORHEAD, Pres't. PITTSBURGH, JANUARY 4, 1847. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Monongahela navigation company held this day, the following gentlemen were elected officers and managers for the year 1847: President-J. K. Moorhead. Treasurer-Thomas M. Howe. Managers-John Anderson, Thomas Bakewell, James W. Burbridge, George W. Cass, Neville B. Craig, John L. Dawson, William Eichbaum, S. R. Johnston, John Tassey, R. C. Townsend. Secretary-William Bakewell. COMMITTEES FOR THE YEAR 1847: On Claims and Accounts-J. W. Burbridge, William Eichbaum, John Tassey, John L. Dawson. On Repairs-John Anderson, R. C. Townsend, N. B. Craig, George W. Cass. On Tolls-Thomas Bakewell, S. R. Johnston, John Anderson, N. B. Craig. RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS AND EVIDENCE TAKEN AND HAD BEFORE THE JOINT COMMITTEE CHARGED WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF THE CONDUCT OF CERTAIN RAILROAD COMPANIES, &c. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1847. The committee met pursuant to adjournment. A motion was made at the suggestion of the counsel for the memorialists Robert A. Mayo and others, that subpoenas be issued to compel the attendance of certain witnesses before the committee at its next session. To this motion an amendment was offered to the following effect: "Resolved, That the memorialists, by their counsel, be required to file specific charges of complaint against the various railroad companies mentioned generally in their memorial, which charges the committee will require the officers of said companies to answer; and thereafter the said memorialists shall have leave to introduce such evidence as to them shall seem proper to sustain such charges." And the question being taken thereupon, was decided in the negative. The question then recurring on the original proposition, was carried in the affirmative. Whereupon, subpoenas were then ordered by the committee to be served upon the following witnesses, in behalf of the memorialists, viz: Thomas Sharp, agent of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company; C. W. Macmurdo, secretary do.; James M. Wickham, William C. Tompkins, James Fulton, Henry Ludlam, L. M. Burfoot, George W. Munford, Thomas Skinner, Samuel Skinner, William Burke, and Thomas Nelson of the City of Richmond; John Southgate and Frederick Southgate, of the City of Norfolk; and H. D. Bird of Petersburg. And on behalf of the respondents, G. A. Myers, James Bosher, R. B. Haxall, C. F. Osborne and Holden Rhodes. It was ordered, on motions severally made, that the following papers and documents be deposited with the clerk, to be laid before the committee at its next session. 1. The agreement between John Southgate and the railroad companies, or either of them. 2. The articles of agreement between the Port Walthall association and the railroad company, and all orders and correspondence in relation thereto. 3. A statement of the number of passengers transported on the Richmond and Petersburg railroad from the Port Walthall association, and the rate of fare per mile paid by such passengers. 4. Who are the owners of the Augusta? And any documents, or correspondence or papers in relation to the title of that boat in possession of either company. 5. The charter of the Maryland company. 6. The arrangement made with that company, and any order or correspondence in relation thereto, and any orders transferring the boats of that company to the James river. 7. All agreements and correspondence between the memorialists, or any of them, and any member or members or agents of the Baltimore steam packet company. 8. Who are the owners of the steamboat Mount Vernon, running between Acquia creek and Baltimore, by the way of Piney Point; and what connection the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad company had with that boat? On motion, the committee adjourned till Wednesday evening 4 o'clock. |