CHAP.
 LXVI.
Canal, &c.
vested in proprietors,
&c.

    II.  Be it enacted, by the general assembly of Maryland, That the said canal,
locks, and other works, with their profits and advantages respectively, shall be
and the same are hereby vested n the proprietors of the Susquehanna canal, their
heirs, successors and assigns, for ever, as tenants in common, according to their
respective shares, and the same shall be deemed real estate, and shall not be subject
or liable to pay any tax, imposition, duty or assessment, whatsoever; and that
it shall and may be lawful for the said corporation, at all time for ever hereafter,
to demand and receive, at such place or places on the said canal as they shall
hereafter adjudge and determine to be most convenient, for all merchandise and
commodities transported through the said canal, such tolls as are mentioned and
enumerated in the following table of rates; that is to say; provided always, that
such exemption from taxation shall extend to such works as relate merely to, and
are necessary for, the navigation of said canal.
 

Every pipe or hogshead of wine, containing more than sixty-five gallons, Every hogshead of rum or other spirits, Every hogshead of tobacco, Every cask between sixty-five and thirty-five gallons, one half of a pipe     or hogshead; barrels, one fourth part; and smaller casks of kegs in     proportion, according to the quality and quantity of their contents of     wine or spirits. For casks of linseed oil the same as spirits, Every bushel of wheat, peas, beans or flax-seed, Every bushel of Indian corn or other grain, or salt, Every barrel of pork, Every barrel of beef, Every barrel of flour, Every tun of hemp, flax, pot-ash, bar or manufactured iron, Every tun of pig-iron or castings, Every tun of copper, lead or other ore, other than iron ore, Every tun of stone, or iron ore, Every hundred bushels of lime, Every chaldron of coals, Every hundred pipe staves, Every hundred hogshead staves, or pipe or hogshead heading, Every hundred barrel staves, or barrel heading, Every hundred cubic feet of plank or scantling, Every hundred cubic feet of other timber, Every gross hundred weight of all other commodities or packages, And every empty boat, or vessel which has not commodities on board to     yield so much, except an empty boat or vessel returning, whose load     has already paid the toll aforesaid, in which case she is to repass toll     free,

3    0 2    6 2    0 0    1 0    01/2 1    0 0    8 0    4 4    0 1    8 4    0 0  10 2    6 0  10 0    41/2 0    3 0    2 1    8 0  11 0    3 5    0

Which tolls are rated in current money, and may be discharged in foreign gold
or silver coin of the present fineness, at the following rates, to wit:
 

Spanish milled piece of eight, or dollar, Other coined Spanish silver of equal fineness, per ounce, English milled crowns, French silver crowns, Johannes, weighing eighteen pennyweight, Half Johannes, weighing nine pennyweight, Moidores, weighing six pennyweight eighteen grains, English guineas, weighing five pennyweight six grains, French ditto, weighing five ditto five grains, Doubloons, weighing seventeen pennyweight, Spanish pistoles, weighing four pennyweight six grains, French milled pistoles, weighing four pennyweight and four grains, Arabian chequins, weighing two pennyweight three grains, Other gold coin (German excepted) by the pennyweight,

0    7    6 0    8    6 0    8    4 0    8    4 6    0    0 3    0    0 2    5    0 1  15    0 1  14    6 5  12    0 1    8    0 1    7    6 0  13    9 0    6    8