Another of the plans suggested at this time, proposed the blasting of a channel which would unite all the water into one stream at low stages. The bed of the river was also surveyed to ascertain the expediency of making a slack water navigation by means of one or more dams or locks. All of these and various others were however merged in the construction of the present Canal, which will be noticed at the appropriate period of this history. With the next year comes another enactment of Assembly with the following amusing preamble:--"Whereas it is represented to the present General Assembly that a number of persons residing in the town of Louisville, are in the habit of raising, and are now possessed of large _numbers of Swine_, to the great injury of the citizens generally; and that there are a number of ponds of water in said town, which are nuisances, and injurious to the health of the city and the prosperity of the town: Be it therefore enacted--That the present Trustees of the said town, and their successors, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to remove the same &c." The latter of these nuisances has disappeared under the efforts of the "said successors," but even the distinguished Mr. Dickens will bear us witness that the law against the former remains to this day a dead letter. Another of the provisions of this same act invests the Trustees with power to levy a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars for the purpose of repairing the streets, and in consideration thereof exempts those citizens from working on the streets, who shall pay an equivalent of 75 cents in money. It also gives the Trustees power to make regulations and by-laws for the proper preservation of order, to appoint a tax collector &c., and extends the privilege of voting for Trustees to the residents of the ten and twenty acre lots, thereby increasing the purlieus of the town to the present site of Chestnut street. In speaking of the navigation and commerce of this period, Dr. McMurtrie tells us that in 1806 "six keel boats and two barges; the one of thirty tons, belonging to Reed, of Cincinnati; the other of forty, owned by Instone, of Frankfort; sufficed for the carrying trade of Louisville and Shippingport." The rapid and almost magical increase of trade in less than fifty years after this will at once suggest itself to every reader.