Sir:
I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency the proceedings of an Assembly on the subject of opening a navigable Canal from the waters of your State to those of Elizabeth River. This matter, so interesting to the Southern Inhabitants of Virginia as well as their Neighbours of Carolina, with whom they have a Community of Interests, I have to request you will please to lay Before the legislature early as possible, in Order that it may receive that attention which it deserves.
Wm. Ronalds, Esqr., and Mr. Robert Andrews are appointed our Commissioners.