WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ation the jury is hereby directed to ascertain and

describe the bounds of the land by them valued,

Describe

and the quality and duration of the estate in the

bounds.

same, required by said company for its use; pro-

vided, nevertheless, that no such inquisition shall

be taken unless previous notice of the time and

place of taking the same shall be given to the per-

son or persons interested in the land about to be

condemned, by personal service of such notice upon

him, her or them, or by leaving such notice at his,

her or their place of abode, or by inserting said

notice for three successive weeks in some news-

paper published in the town of Cambridge; and

in lieu of a continuous canal along said runs, and

for the purposes of improving the navigation of

said Blackwater, Transquakin and Chicamicomico

rivers, the said company shall have power to use,

Power to use

occupy and possess so much of the bed and waters

and possess.

of said rivers as may be necessary, and to make a

cut across any neck or peninsula formed by the

bends of said rivers so as to straighten or deepen

said rivers, and the same shall be considered part

of said canal, and in case said canal, or any part

of it, or any improvement in said rivers shall be

made on, over or across any unpatented land or

lands not heretofore granted by the State, the said

State hereby waivers all claim for damages and

grants the right of way to the said company.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said president

and directors, upon paying or tendering payment

to the owner or owners of the said land, the sum

so awarded by the jurors aforesaid, as the case

Power to en-

may be, they shall have power to enter upon said

ter upon lands.

laud, cut, dig and make said canal, and the im-

provements in the navigation of said rivers, and

do all other things necessary to make the improve-

ments contemplated by this act.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That said company

shall be authorized and empowered to buy and to

sell, to hold, improve and to drain either upland

or marsh land, by canal or by embankments, any

Buy, hold.

lands in said county bordering on, in the vicinity

sell, &c.

of, or between the said Blackwater, Transquakin

and Chicamicomico rivers, also to open and use

roads from the said rivers or canal to any parts in