| 1804.
CHAP. 100.
Part of an act repealed.
* Ch. 63. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That such parts of an
act passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-five,* entitled,
An act for making an addition to the town of Havre-de-Grace, and
to improve the navigation of the river Susquehanna, and for other
purposes, as relate to the granting of a lottery, be and the same are
hereby repealed. |
Persons appointed
to co-operate with
those which may
be appointed by
legislature of
Pennsylvania.
Provisos. |
5. AND, whereas it is highly important to
the state of Pennsylvania
that the obstructions in the river Susquehanna as aforesaid
be removed, and it may be presumed that the legislature of the said
state of Pennsylvania will, in their wisdom, adopt a policy conducive
to the removal of such obstructions, to which contingency this
legislature wishes to provide a co-operation; therefore, BE IT ENACTED,
That if the said state of Pennsylvania, within the present
year, by lottery or lotteries, appropriation or otherwise, raise a
sum of money not less than fifty thousand dollars, or in five annual
proportions of not less than ten thousand dollars each year, to be
applied to the clearing of a channel between the town of Columbia
and the Maryland line as aforesaid, and to the making of a canal
or canals for boats where the river shall be found too rapid to
pass in safety, or too difficult to ascend with ease, the said General
Samuel Smith, Gabriel Christie, Robert Gilmore, John Adlum,
Samuel Hughes, Mark Pringle and John Stump, (of Harford,) or
any three of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to act,
co-operate and unite with, such person or persons as the state of
Pennsylvania shall appoint, to make and easy and safe channel and
such canal or canals as shall be found necessary and practicable,
and to adopt such mode and means for effecting the same as shall
be found most likely to attain the end in view; Provided nevertheless,
that before the said General Samuel Smith, Gabriel Christie, Robert
Gilmore, John Adlum, Samuel Hughes, Mark Pringle and
John Stump, (of Harford,) or any three of them, shall make any
pledge or disbursement of money towards any canal or canals, the
state of Pennsylvania shall, by law, secure the said canal or canals
as a property in common to the said state of Pennsylvania and the
state of Maryland, to be for ever held and kept as a common highway,
and for no other use; and that there shall be charged a toll for
passing the said canal or canals, equal to a cent per bushel for
wheat, and a proportionate sum on every other article, having relation
to the value, bulk and weight, of such articles, to be hereafter
regulated by law, as shall be agreed upon by the said states of Pennsylvania
and Maryland; And provided also, that the said state of
Pennsylvania shall direct that the said tolls collected at the said
canal or canals as aforesaid shall, after defraying the necessary expenses
for repairs of the said canal or canals, for collecting the
said tolls, and other contingencies, be for ever appropriated towards
further improvements on the said channel, between the town of Columbia
and tide water, and for the improvement of such other parts
of the river, above the town of Columbia, as shall be deemed adviseable. |
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