JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 693

Department to be granted by the Congress of the
United States, at its present session, for the improve-
ment 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 ex-
pended 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 con-
structed by the same authority, as still remain in
said channel; aad the residue in deepening the ap-
proach 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