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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 454.

AN ACT to incorporate the Choptank and Dela-

ware Ship Canal Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assent

bly of Maryland, That John W. Garrett, Enoch

Pratt, Robert T. Baldwin, Gihnore Meredith, L M.

Body corpo-
rate.

Parr, Henry G. Davis, Henry Loveridge, Lloyd

Lowndes, James A. L. McClure, Charles T. Mayer

and William H. Smith, of the State of Maryland,

and also Charles H. Gibson, Dr. I. L. Adkins and

A. S. Abell, of the same State ; and James Ponder

and Edward L. Martin, of the State of Delaware, and

their associates and successors, and all other persons

who may be stockholders as hereinafter provided,

are hereby constituted and made a body corporate

by the name of the Choptank and Delaware Ship

Canal Company, for the purpose of cutting and

Cut and make
a ship canal

making a ship canal, the object of which shall be to
connect the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware

Bay, with all the works, locks, offices and appur-

tenances that may be necessary ; the said canal shall

start from or commence at Ferry creek, on the Chop-

tank river, opposite Chancellor's point, and run to

Walnut landing on the Nanticoke, then up the Nan-

ticoke river to the State line of Delaware and Mary-

land ; and, by the aforesaid corporate name, the said

J. W. Garrett, Enoch Pratt, Robert T. Baldwin,

Gilmore Meredith, I. M. Parr, Henry G. Davis,

Heniy Loveridge, Lloyd Lowndes, James A. L. Mc-

Clure, Charles F. Mayer, William H. Smith, Charles

H. Gibson, Dr. I. L. Adkins, A. S. Abell, James

Pouder and Edward L. Martin, their associates and

successors, and all other persons who may be stock-

holders as hereinafter provided, shall be and they are

hereby made capable in law of purchasing, holding,

Hold real es-

leasing, selling, conveying estate, real, personal and

tate.

mixed, so far as shall be necessary and convenient

for the purpose aforesaid and hereinafter mentioned,

and no further ; and shall have perpetual succession,

and by said corporate name may sue and be sued,

and have and use a common seal, and the same alter

and renew at pleasure ; and also to ordain, establish