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	chester county, and into said Secretary creek to the
	head thereof; to clear out said creek and channel to
	any width and breadth that may be deemed neces-	Any width or breadth.
	sary or expedient for a safe and convenient harbor
	for steamers or any other vessels, and to erect such	Erect
	wharves thereon as to them may seem proper, after	wharves.
	the purchase or condemnation of such land as may be
	necessary for the purpose as hereinafter provided for.
	SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That for the purpose
	of cutting said channel or canal, deepening said
	harbor, and other purposes provided by this act, the
	said company is hereby authorized to borrow money	Authorized
	to any amount not exceeding five thousand dollars,	to borrow
	the interest thereon to be paid semi-annually, and to issue their bonds therefor in sums not less than one :	money. Issue bonds.
	hundred dollars, and to secure the payment of said
	bonds and their interest by executing and delivering
	to such trustee or trustees as they may select, a
	mortgage of all or any part of the canal harbor,	Deliver trus-
	property rights, liberties and franchises of said com-	tees moitgage
	pany.
	SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the president and
	directors of said company shall have power to pur-	Power to
	chase and hold real estate, or any other kind of	pin chase real
	property, and to sell the same, and may agree with '	estate.
	the owner or owners of any real estate in the bed of
	said creek or at its mouth, or on its borders, for
	either the purchase or the use and occupation of the
	same in the making of said channel, canal or harbor,
	or material for the wharves thereon, and protection
	of the same from injury by storms or otherwise, and
	in case they cannot agree upon terms for auch pur-
	chase of land or material, or use and occupation, or
	where such owner may be an infant, "feme covert "
	or non compos mentis, or out of the county at the
	time the property may be needed, on application to
	a justice of the peace of Dorchester county, he shall
	issue his warrant under his hand and seal, directed
	to the sheriff of said county, requiring him to sum-
	mon twenty citizens of said county, above the age
	of twenty-five years, as jurors, not interested in the	Not interest'd
	matter or related to any of the parties, to meet on
	the land to be valued or condemned, on a day to be
	specified in said warrant, not less than ten nor more
	than twenty days from the date of the warrant, of