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which the entry shall be made; and where any vessel shall
make an entry in both states, such vessel shall be subject to
tonnage in each state, only in proportion to the commodities
carried to or taken from such state. Sixth, The river Patow-
mack shall be considered as a common highway for the purpose
of navigation and commerce to the citizens of Virginia and Ma-
ryland, and of the United States, and to all other persons in
amity with the said states trading to or from Virginia or Mary-
land. Seventh, The citizens of each state respectively shall
have full property in the shores of Patowmack river adjoining
their lands, with all emoluments and advantages thereunto be-
longing, and the privilege of making and carrying out wharves
and other improvements, so as not to obstruct or injure the navi-
gation of the river, but the right of fishing in the river shall be
common to, and equally enjoyed by, the citizens of both states ;
provided, that such common right be not exercised by the citi-
zens of the one state to the hinderance or disturbance of the
fisheries on the shores of the other state, and that the citizens
of neither state shall have a right to fish with nets or scans on
the shores of the other. Eighth, All laws and regulations
which may be necessary for the preservation of fish, or for the
performance of quarantine, in the river Patowmack, or for pre-
serving and keeping open the channel and navigation thereof,
or of the river Pocomoke within the limits of Virginia, by pre-
venting the throwing out ballast, or giving any other obstruc-
tion thereto, shall be made with the mutual consent and appro-
bation of both states. Ninth, Light-houses, beacons, buoys, or
other necessary signals, shall be erected, fixed and maintained,
upon Chesapeake bay, between the sea and the mouths of the
livers Patowmack and Pocomoke, and upon the river Patow-
mack, at the expense of both states ; if upon Patowmack river,
at the joint and equal charge of both states, and if upon the
before-mentioned part of Chesapeake bay, Virginia shall defray
five parts, and Maryland three parts, of such expense, and if
this proportion shall in future times be found unequal, the same
shall be corrected. And for ascertaining the proper places, mode
and plans, for erecting and fixing light-houses, buoys, beacons,
and other signals, as aforesaid, both states shall, upon the appli-
cation of either to the other, appoint an equal number of com-
missioners, not less than three or more than five from each
state, to meet at such times and places as the said commission-
ers, or a major part of them, shall judge fit, to fix upon the pro-
per places, mode and plans, for erecting and fixing such light-
houses, beacons, or other signals, and report the same, with an
estimate of the expense, to the legislatures of both states, for
their approbation. Tenth, All piracies, crimes or offences, com-
mitted on that part of Chesapeake bay which lies within the
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