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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the
company incorporated
as aforesaid shall make it appear, to the satisfaction of the
county court of Worcester county, that there is a complete and safe
navigation for vessels drawing at least five feet of water from Saint
Martin's river or Sinepuxent bay to the Atlantic ocean, through the
said contemplated inlet, then and not before shall said company
proceed to collect the tolls as aforesaid directed by this act; and
should complaint be at any time made to the county court to make such inquiry
as they may deem right and proper for the true ascertainment
of the alleged facts, and if found true, they shall have full power
and authority to suspend the collection of said tolls, until it shall
be made appear to their satisfaction that the navigation of said inlet
is such as this law directs and requires. |
1803.
CHAP. 64.
Which navigation
is completed for
vessels drawing 5
feet water, tolls
may be collected. |
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CHAP. LXV.
An Act to ratify an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States
od America, proposed by Congress to the Legislatures
of the several
States. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 438. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
WHEREAS it is provided by the fifth article of the
constitution of
the United States of America, that congress, whenever two-thirds
of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments
to the said constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures
of
two-thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing
amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents
and purposes as part of the said constitution, when ratified by the
legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions
in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification
may be proposed by the congress: And whereas at the first session
of the eighth congress of the United States, begun and held at the
city of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, on Monday the
seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and three, it was resolved as followeth, to wit: Resolved
by the senate and house of representatives of the United
States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses
concurring, that in lieu of the third paragraph of the first section of
the second article of the constitution of the United States, the following
be proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the United
States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures
of the several states, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as
part of the said constitution, to wit: The electors shall meet in
their respective states, and vote by ballot for president and vice-president,
one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the
same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person
voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted
for as vice-president, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons
voted for as president, and of all persons voted for as vice-president,
and of the number of votes for each, which lists they
shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government
of the United States, directed to the president of the senate;
the president of the senate shall, in the president of the senate and
house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes
shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of |
Preamble. |
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