To the honorable the speaker and House of Delegates, for the state of Virginia : the petition of sundry inhabitants of the federal district, and of the state of Virginia, humbly sheweth, That your petitioners are strongly impressed by information, as well as their own immediate knowledge, that there is a necessity for a great leading road, as direct as the ground will admit of, from the city of Washington, thro' the middle counties of the different states, south-westward to the seat of government, in Georgia ...