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dred and sixty-five, relating to the publication of
Public Local Laws.

Approved April 10, 1880.

	CHAPTER 436.
	AN ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake Bay and
	Potomac River Tide- Water Canal Company.
	WHEREAS the State of Maryland, in giving her
	assent to the charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio
	Canal Company, expressly reserved the right of the	Preamble
	State to charter and construct a lateral canal to con-
	nect with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at some
	point within the District of Columbia, which reser-
	vation was assented to by the Congress of the United
	States; and
	WHEREAS it is now more than ever necessary to
	secure to the city of Baltimore a portion of the large and increasing trade of the Chesapeake and Ohio	Preamble.
	Canal, which can only be effected by the construc-
	tion of a branch canal from the Chesapeake and
	Ohio Canal ; and
	WHEREAS to secure this trade to the State of Ma-
	ryland and the city of Baltimore it is only necessary
	to construct twenty-six miles of canal from the
	Beaver Dams creek, on the eastern branch of the Po-
	tomac river, head it, and across to the western branch
	of the Patuxent, down it and the main river to
	Lyon's creek, up it and across to Herring bay on
	the Chesapeake ; therefore, it is the intention of this
	act to construct a canal from such point on the Ches-	Preamble.
	apeake and Ohio Canal, within the District of Co-
	lumbia, to Herring bay, as the board of directors
	may select, and to use such portions of the Potomac
	River, near the eastern branch, and such portion of
	Herring bay as they deem best, and to confer upon
	the company, hereby incorporated, all and similar
	rights, powers, exemptions, privileges and franchises,
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