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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812.

court of Somerset county shall think proper to al-
low him.

CHAPTER 84

Passed Dec.
18, 1812.

A supplement to the act entitled, "An act to incor-
porate a company for the purpose of cutting and
making a canal between the river Delaware and
Chesapeake Bay.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, during the time of war against the
United States of America, the completion of the
work of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal would
be greatly beneficial to the United States, by forming
the great link of an inland navigation of six or seven,
hundred miles, and thereby establish a perfectly safe,
easy and rapid transportation of our armies, and
the munitions of war through the interior of the
county, and which would ever tend to operate as a
cement to the union between the States; And where-
as, The prosperity and the agricultural interest of the
State of Maryland, the commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania and the Delaware State, are more deeply in-
terested than their sister States in the useful work
of opening a communication between the Chesapeake
bay, and the river Delaware, by means of the said
Chesapeake and Delaware canal: Therefore, In or-
der to enable the president and directors of the said
canal to prosecute and finish the important work of
the said Chesapeake and Delaware canal,

Proportions to
be subscribed
— treasurer
may vote at
elections, &c.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That if the United States shall
subscribe seven hundred and fifty shares, the com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania three hundred and se-
venty-five shares, the State of Delaware one hundred
shares, in the Chesapeake and Delaware canal com-
pany, in such case the treasurer of the western
shore be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to
subscribe, in behalf of this State, two hundred and
fifty shares in. said company, and the money necessa-
ry to be paid in consequence of such subscription,
shall be paid by this State; and the treasurer of the
western shore, for the time being, shall have a right
to vote tor president and directors of said company,
according to such number of shares in person, or by
proxy appointed by him; and the said treasurer shall
receive upon the said stock, the proportion of the
tolls which shall from time to time be due to the State
for the shares aforesaid.