JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 629

from the eastern terminus in the District of Col-
umbia, to the City of Cumberland in the State of
Maryland, and
WHEREAS, The time fixed in said charter for the
completion of that portion of the canal from Cum-	Preamble
berland to some point on the Ohio River has expired,
and
WHEREAS, The agricultural, mechanical, mining
and manufacturing interests now, more than ever
heretofore, demand that this national highway shall	Preamble
be completed at an early day, and
WHEREAS, The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com-
pany heretofore chartered, has been so embarassed
that it has been unable to complete the said canal, it
is therefore the meaning and intention of this act, to
charter another company, to construct, operate and	Preamble
maintain a canal from the City of Cumberland, in
the State of Maryland, to some convenient point on
the Ohio River, and to grant to the said company
hereby incorporated, similar rights, powers, exemp-
tions, privileges and franchises in the construction
and maintenance of this work, as are now held and
enjoyed by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com-
pany, under its charter and several supplements
thereto; therefore —
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That A. P. German, J. G. Berrett, M.
Bannon, D. S. Biser, G. M. Watkins, P. Hamil, Gil-
mor Meredith, Alex. Shan, W. W. McKaig, John
Ritchie, Lloyd Lowndes, Henry G. Davis, Thomas	Incoporated
Moore, E. C. Pechim, James S. Negley, G. H. Thur-
ston, J. K. Moorhead, Frank Cowan, and such other
persons as may become associated with them, in the
manner hereinafter provided, shall be and they are
hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the
name of the Cumberland and Ohio Canal Company,
and as such shall have all the rights, powers, exemp-	Rights and
tions, privileges and franchises now held and enjoyed	powers
by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, under
its charter, passed by the Legislature of the State of
Virginia, at the December session, eighteen hundred
and twenty-three, and ratified by the State of Mary-
land at the December session, eighteen hundred and