| 1784.
CHAP.
XXXIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
canal twenty-five feet wide and four feet deep, with sufficient locks
(if necessary),
each of eighty feet in length, sixteen feet in breadth, and capable of
conveying
vessels or rafts drawing four feet water at the least; and shall make,
at or near
the little falls, such canal and locks, if necessary, as will be sufficient
and proper
to let vessels and rafts aforesaid into tide water, or render the said
river navigable
in the natural course. |
| Proviso. |
XVIII. And it
is hereby provided and enacted, That in case the said company
shall not begin the said work within one year after the company shall be
formed, or if the navigation shall not be made and improved between the
great
falls and Fort Cumberland, in the manner herein before mentioned, within
three
years after the said company shall be formed, that then the said company
shall
not be entitled to any benefit, privilege or advantage, under this act;
and in case
the said company shall not complete the navigation through and from the
great
falls to tide water as aforesaid, within ten years after the sid company
shall be
formed, then shall all the interest of the sid company, and all preference
in
their favour, as to the navigation and tolls at, through and from, the
great falls
to tide water, be forfeited and cease. |
Commodities
of either state
free from duty,
&c. |
XIX. And be
it enacted, That all commodities of the produce of either of
the sid states, or of the western country, which may be carries or transported
through the sid locks, canals and river, may be landed, sold, or otherwise
disposed
of, free from any other duties, impositions, regulations or restrictions,
of
any kind, than the like commodities of the produce of the state in which
the
same may happen to be so landed, sold, shipped or disposed of. |
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XX. And,
to encourage and promote the said undertaking, Be
it enacted,
That if the state of Virginia shall subscribe fifty shares, in such case
the treasurer
of the western shore be authorised and directed to subscribe, in behalf
of
this state, a like number of shares, and the money necessary to be paid
in consequence
of such subscription, shall be paid by this state; and the treasurer of
the western shore for the time being, shall have a right to vote according
to such
shares, in person, or by proxy appointed by him; and the said treasurer
shall
receive the proportion of the tolls aforesaid, which shall, from time to
time, be
due to the state for the shares aforesaid. |
Act of no effect,
&c. |
XXI. This act, and every part thereof, to
be of no effect, unless an act shall
be passed by the legislature of VIrginia upon similar principles. |
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CHAP. XXXIV.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to authorise and empower
Robert
Ballard, administrator of the goods and chattels, rights
and credits, of Jonathan
Plowman, late of Baltimore county, deceased, unadministered
by Rebecca
Plowman and David Arnold, his executors at the time
of his decease, with
the will of the said Jonathan Plowman annexed.
PR. |
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CHAP. XXXV.
An ACT for the relief of Micajah Mitchell. PR. |
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CHAP. XXXVI.
An ACT for the sale of a lot of ground in Baltimore-town, the property
of
Thomas Walley. PR. |
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CHAP. XXXVII.
An ACT for founding a college on the western shore of this state,
and constituting the same, together with Washington
college on
the eastern shore, into one university, by the name
of The
University of Maryland. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS institutions for the liberal education of
youth in the principles
of virtue, knowledge, and useful literature, are of the highest
benefit to society, in order to train up and perpetuate a succession of |
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