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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
secretary; to employ such and as many agents, engineers, surveyors,
draftsmen, and other persons as in their opinion may
be necessary to enable them to fulfil and discharge the duties
imposed upon them by this act; and to allow and pay the said
secretary, agents, engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, and other
persons, such sum or sums of money as may be an adequate
recompense for their services. |
General duties
assigned. |
3. And be it enacted, That the president
and directors aforesaid,
shall cause those parts of the territory of this state and
the District of Columbia, which shall lie upon or contiguous to
the probable courses and ranges for a canal by which the port
of Baltimore may be connected with the proposed artificial navigation
of the Potomac river, to be explored and examined
for the purpose of fixing and determining the most eligible and
proper route for the same; and shall cause such of the low lands
on the margin of the rivers and creeks in this state, as they
shall think proper, to be explored and examined, for the purpose
of draining, embanking, and rendering the same dry and cultivable;
and until such low lands shall be surveyed and examined
as aforesaid, no warrant of survey or patent shall issue therefor,
until the legislature shall make future provision on the subject;
and the said president and directors shall be exploring and
surveying the intermediate country and streams, ascertain the
best practicable rout for a canal between the eastern branch of
the Potomac river, and also between any lateral canal to Baltimore
and the city of Annapolis; and shall cause to be explored,
surveyed and sounded, such portions as they may deem
necessary, of the Susquehannah, Pocomoke, Manokin, Wicomico,
Great Choptank, Chester, and all other rivers of this
state, and of the county adjacent thereto, for the purpose of ascertaining
the practicability and expense of opening and improving
the navigation of said rivers, and of devising the most
proper plans for effecting those objects; and shall cause the necessary
surveys and levels to be taken, and accurate maps, field
books, drafts and models thereof, to be made; and further to
recommend the most proper plans for the formation and construction
of said canal, and other improvements, and thereafter,
in like manner, to proceed in reference to any road, canal, or
other improvement which they may be required to explore, locate
and construct, altogether or partly in behalf of the people
of this state. |
Calculations;
estimates—
plans; reports. |
4. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the president
and directors aforesaid, to make or cause to be made
with as much accuracy and minuteness as may be, calculations
and estimates of the sum or sums of money, which may or
will be necessary for completing the canal and other improvements
now as aforesaid contemplated, and of such others as
may hereafter be in like manner proposed, according to the
plans which they may recommend, or the legislature approve,
for the formation or construction of the same; and to cause |
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