_Pennsylvania Grants Permission to Make the Road Through Her Territory--Uniontown Restored, Gist Left Out, and Washington, Pennsylvania, Made a Point--Simon Snyder, Speaker of the House--Pressly Carr Lane, a Fayette County Man, Speaker of the Senate, and Thomas McKean, Governor--A Second Special Message From President Jefferson, and a Second Report of the Commissioners--Heights of Mountains and Hills--On to Brownsville and Wheeling--An Imperious Call Made on Commissioner Kerr._ An Act authorizing the President of the United States to open a road through that part of this State lying between Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, and the Ohio river. WHEREAS, by an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled "An act to regulate the laying out and making a road from Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the State of Ohio," the President of the United States is empowered to lay out a road from the Potomac river to the river Ohio, and to take measures for making the same, so soon as the consent of the legislatures of the several States through which the said road shall pass, could be obtained: And whereas, application hath been made to this legislature, by the President of the United States, for its consent to the measures aforesaid: Therefore, SECTION 1. _Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same_, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause so much of the said road as will be within this State, to be opened so far as it may be necessary the same should pass through this State, and to cause the said road to be made, regulated and completed, within the limits, and according to the intent and meaning of the before recited Act of Congress in relation thereto; _Provided, nevertheless_, That the route laid down and reported by the commissioners to the President of the United States, be so altered as to pass through Uniontown, in the county of Fayette, and Washington, in the county of Washington, if such alteration can, in the opinion of the President, be made, consistently with the provisions of an act of Congress passed March 29th, 1806, but if not, then over any ground within the limit of this State, which he may deem most advantageous.