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15, and to provide for the prompt payment of the bounties
therein specified, and to repeal section 4 of said Act, and to
re-enact the same so as to make the bounties therein specified
payable to the widows and heirs of deceased soldiers, and to
make said bounties payable to the heirs of such soldiers as
having been honorably discharged after faithful service—have
died without receiving the benefit of its provisions;

Was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading.

On motion by Mr. Earle,

Was read the third time by special order, three'fourths con-
curring, and passed by yeas and nays as follow :

Messrs. Billingslea, Brodwater, Compton, Davis, of Caroline, Earle, Frazier, Holton, Jump, Kimmel,	AFFIRMATIVE. Mackall, Philpot, Spates, Stephenson, Tome, Vickers, Waters, Young — 17.
	NEGATIVE — None.

Said bill was then sent to the House of Delegates.

The bill entitled, an Act to amend an Act entitled, an Act
to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting and mak-
ing a canal between the River Delaware and the Chesapeake
Bay, passed at November session, 1799, chapter 16, and also
to annex a supplement thereto, passed at December session,
1835, chapter 379,

Being under consideration,

Mr. Stephenson submitted the following amendment :

And be it enacted, That the General Assembly hereby as-
serts its right to alter, modify, amend or repeal the original
Act of incorporation, to which this Act is a supplement, as
well as all the supplements heretofore granted, to amend
said original Act; and if said company shall accept this sup-
plemental Act, by appropriation to its use any of the rights,
privileges or franchises, in this supplemental Act contained,
such appropriation and use, shall be deemed and taken as the
assent of said company to this supplemental Act, in which
case this supplemental Act shall be taken and regarded in
law and iact to be a part of the original Act of incorporation,
to which this is a supplement, and to have the same effect,
to all intents and purposes, as it the same had originally
been made first thereof; and the General Assembly reserves
the right to alter, amend or modify the original Act of incor-