"Upon the first, second and third divisions, with a cover of metal of six inches in thickness, composed of stone reduced to particles of not more than four ounces in weight, the travel was admitted in the month of June last. Those divisions that lie eastward of the village of Fairview together embrace a distance of very nearly twenty-eight and a half miles, and were put under contract on the first of July, and first and thirty-first of August, 1825. This portion of the road has been, in pursuance of contracts made last fall and spring, covered with the third stratum of metal of three inches in thickness, and similarly reduced. On parts of this distance, say about five miles made up of detached pieces, the travel was admitted at the commencement of the last winter and has continued on to this time to render it compact and solid; it is very firm, elastic and smooth. The effect has been to dissipate the prejudices which existed very generally, in the minds of the citizens, 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." [34] _Laws of Pennsylvania_ (pamphlet), p. 419. [35] _Laws of Ohio_, XXVI, p. 41; _Laws of Pennsylvania_ (pamphlet), p. 102. [36] _Id._, XXVI, p. 41. [37] Tolls for 1845 were based on number of horses, each additional horse being taxed about .20. Tolls for 1900 (in Franklin County) were practically identical with tolls of 1845. [38] _Laws of Ohio_, XXX, p. 321. [39] _Id._, XXX, p. 8. [40] _Id._, XXXIV, p. 111. [41] _Id._, XLIII, p. 89. [42] _Laws of Pennsylvania_ (pamphlet), pp. 534, 164, 430-431. [43] _Laws of Ohio_, XXXV, p. 7. [44] _Laws of Pennsylvania_ (pamphlet), p. 353. [45] _Laws of Ohio_, XXX, p. 8. [46] _Id._, XXIX, p. 76. [47] _Id._, XXX, p. 8. [48] _Id._, XXX, p. 7. [49] _Id_., XXXII, p. 265; XXX, p. 7. [50] Searight's _The Old Pike_, p. 298. [51] _Id._, pp. 362-366. [52] _Id._, pp. 367-370. [53] _Laws of Ohio_, LII, p. 126. [54] _Id._, LVI, p. 159. [55] _Id._, LXX, p. 194. [56] _Id._, LXXIII, p. 105. [57] _Laws of Ohio_, LXXIV, p. 62. [58] _Report of the Superintendent of the National Road, with Abstract of Tolls for the fiscal year_ (1837). [59] _Laws of Ohio_, XXX, p. 8. [60] Thackeray's _The Newcomes_, vol. i, ch. x. [61] In one instance a struggle between two stagecoach lines in Indiana resulted in carrying passengers from Richmond to Cincinnati for fifty cents. The regular price was five dollars.