RESOLUTIONS. 1335.

with the view to certain connexions from the Shenan- ———— doah,NCacapon and South Branch, with the Canal on the Maryland Shore, which improvements will afford great facilities to the Virginia trade, and at the same time increase the revenue of the canal, and whereas it is also represented that the proposed connexions are deemed by the engineers of the company, to be important improvements on the orignal plan of construction, hy giving greater security to the works, and rendering those copious streams, feeders to the canal, and as the additional cost of the said improvements is intended to be provided for by the proposed subscription on the part of the State of Virginia:—Wherefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so much of an act passed at December Session eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter , to provide for the completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to Cumberland, and for other purposes, as required that the subscription books of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, should not be opened until one year shall have elapsed after the completion of said Canal to Cumberland, nor until two months shall have elapsed after the end of the first session of the General Assembly of Maryland, that shall convene after the expiration of the said twelvemonths, without the consent of the said General Assembly first had and obtained;he, and hereby is so far modified as that the said books may he opened for the purpose of receiving such subscription to the capital stork of the said company as the State of Virginia may be pleased to make, to enable the said company to connect the waters of the Shenandoah, Cacapon and the South Branch rivers, or either of thorn, at or near their respective mouths, with the canal or works of the said company: Provided however, that nothing that may be done under theprovisions of this resolution, shall be construed in any manner to affect or impair the mortgage or security, now held by this State for the loan made by her to said company, under an act of the General Assembly passed at last session. 92