JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 631

of one year thereafter, or until their successors shall
be duly elected and qualified, with power to aaid pre-	Vacancies.
sident and directors to fill any vacancy or vacancies
which may take place amongst them, during their
term of office, by the election of such other person
or persons, from amongst the stockholders, as they
may select, and the said president and directors, so
elected, and their successors, duly appointed, shall
have and exercise all the other powers now possessed
and enjoyed by the president and directors of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, under its
charter and the several amendments and supple-
ments thereto, not herein otherwise provided ; and
shall at all times be removable by the vote of a ma-
jority of the stockholders of said company, at any	Removable.
public meeting thereof, duly called, after thirty days'
public notice; said meeting to be held at the princi-
pal office of said company ; and shall receive such
compensation for their services as the stockholders
may from time to time determine.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That there shall be held
annually, on the first Tuesday in June, in each and	Meetings.
every year, a general meeting of the stockholders of
said company, to receive and consider the annual
report of the president and directors for the prece-
ding year, and elect their sucessors, and to transact
any and all other business relating to said canal,
and the affairs of said company, which may be
brought before them. At all meetings of the stock-
holders, a majority in value thereof shall be neces-
sary to constitute a quorum ; and in case at any of
said annual meetings of the stockholders, or at any
other meeting thereof, whether regular or special, a
quorum should not be present, an adjournment may
be had to some other day, and so on, from time to
time, until the attendance of a quorum shall be ob-
tained.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said company
shall begin the construction of said canal within ten
years from the date of the passage of this act, and	Begin the construction.
shall complete the same within twenty years from.
the commencement thereof; and the said canal and
the works to be erected thereon, when completed,
shall forever thereafter be esteemed and taken to be
navigable as a public highway, free for the trans-