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CHAPTER 356.
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A supplement to an act, entitled, a supplement to an act,
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Passed May 30,1836
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to Incorporate the Susquehanna and Patapsco Canal
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Company, passed at December Session, eighteen hun-
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dred and twenty-five, chapter tivo hundred.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Authorised to con-
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Maryland, That the Tide Water Canal Company, in-
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struct a connect-ing canal
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corporated by the act to which this is a supplement,
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shall be authorised to construct a Canal from the
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Northern line of the State to some point which may he
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determined upon, at or near the town of Havre de
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Grace, on the Susquehanna River, and to connect the
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said canal with the canal authorised to be constructed by
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the Susquehanna Canal Company of Pennsylvania, up-
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on such terms, and subject to such stipulations and
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covenants as may be agreed upon between the two
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companies, and the canal hereby authorised shall be of at
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Dimensions
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least equal size, dimensions and capacity in every re-
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spect, and shall be counstructed upon a plan not infe-
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rior to that of the said Pennsylvania Canal; provided.
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that this act shall be void if the said canal shall not be
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completed within seven years from the passage of this
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act.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of
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Capital stock.
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the said company, shall be six hundred thousand
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dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, and whenever
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eight thousand shares of the said stock shall have been
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subscribed, then the said subscribers and stockholders
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and their successors, shall be, and they hereby are in-
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coporated by the name of the Tide Water Canal Com-
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Style— Tide Water
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pany, under the provisions of the act to which this is a
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Canal
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supplement, and the act to incorporate the Susquehan-
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na and Patapsco Canal Company, so far as the same
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may be applicable and necessary to the organization
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