Department to be granted by the Congress of the United States, at its present session, for the improvement of navigation in the Susquehanna River, passed in such shape as shall require, that so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, shall be expended in removing the canal boats loaded with stone, which have been sunk in one of the channels of said river by the United States authorities, and such fragments of the two deflectors heretofore constructed by the same authority, as still remain in said channel; aad the residue in deepening the approach to the mouth of said river, by dredging.

No. 7.
In relation to the improvement of the navigation
of the Upper Potomac, Eastern Branch of the Po-
tomac and Patapsco Rivers.
WHEREAS, A deep interest is felt by the citizens of
the State of Maryland, and a large number of	Preamble.
the citizens of the State of Virginia and West Vir-
ginia in the extension of the navigation of the Po-
tomac River from the City of Cumberland in
Maryland, now the terminus of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, to the mouth of Savage River, a
distance of twenty-eight miles, which latter point
is in the center of what is commonly known as the
Cumberland Coal Basin.
WHEREAS, The Government of the United States
did, on or about the fifteenth of August, eighteen	Preamble.
hundred and twenty-eight, subscribe to ten thou-
sand shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company, and did since that date,
viz : on the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred