Ohio City Letter to City of Cleveland Regarding Ferries

              [corresponds to page 1 of Ohio City Letter to City of Cleveland Regarding Ferries] 
To the City Council of the City of Cleveland 
We the undersigned were appointed a Committee by 
the Common Council of this City to reply to a Committee 
appointed by the Common Council of the City of Cleveland 
on the subject of establishing Free Ferries at different 
points on the Cuyahoga River. [line] 
In answer we have briefly to stat that the 
Common Council of the City of Cleveland and their Committee 
have been well aware that exertions have been for a 
long time making to erect a Bridge across at one of 
the points proposed by said Committee to establish a 
Ferry,  Feeling as we do on the subject that a Bridge 
will accomodate the immediate and the traveling 
community better than all the Ferries that could poss 
=ibly be established accross the Cuyahoga River, we feel 
it our duty to decline any further conferance on 
the subject of Ferries untill the question of Bridges 
or no Bridges is decided, when this question is [illegible] 
and if it should be decided no Bridges [word crossed out] This 
[above word crossed out] Committee 
will ever be ready & happy to confer, with any Committee 
That your City Council may appoint 
With great Respect we remain 
Respectfully Yours 
Obt Servts 
Luke Risley 
City of Ohio May 19th 1836	Cyrus Williams 
Act Ward 
Commission [written sideways in right margin] 
PS Oposite you have a Resolution addopted by 
our City Council on the subject of Ferries 
(over)