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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
table. Resolved, That the Committee of Roads and Internal Navigation be requested to lay before this House such proof, if any, of the ability of the firm of Bellet dee Minieres & Co, to execute their contract made in August last, for the purchase and completion of the James River and Kanawha Canal. Mr. Baskerville hoped the resolution would be withdrawn. The Committee of Roads and Navigation had the matter in hand, and he urged that their report should be waited for. Mr. Chapman, Chairman of the Committee, said, that when the resolution was offered some time since, he was opposed to its adoption, but that he was satisfied, from the multitude of inquiries poured into the committee, that the information should be given. He believed the testimony before the committee not only showed the entire ability of the Association of French capitalists, who had undertaken the work, to carry it through, but that it was probably one of the most powerful financial organizations