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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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Chapter 164.
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AN ACT to repeal chapter three hundred and forty-
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six of the acts passed at the January session, eigh-
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teen hundred and eighty-two, entitled " An act to
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authorize and enable William J. Thomas, proprietor
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of the wharf at the foot of High street, Cambridge,
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Dorchester county, to extend and enlarge the same,
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and to re-enact the same, so as to read as follows :
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SECTION I. Se it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That chapter three hundred and forty-
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six of the acts passed at the January session, eighteen
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hundred and eighty-two, entitled " An act to authorize
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REpealed and
re-enacted.
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and enable William J. Thomas, proprietor of the
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wharf at the foot of High street, Cambridge, Dor-
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chester county, to extend and enlarge the same, be
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and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so
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as to read as follows :
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SEC. '2. And be it enacted, That William J. Thomas,
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proprietor of the wharf extending in the Choptank
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river from the foot of High street, in the town of
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Authorised to
extend wharf.
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Cambridge, Dorchester county, and built under a
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charter granted by an act passed at the session of
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eighteen hundred and twenty-two, be authorized and
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enabled to extend and enlarge the same as follows :
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the extension and
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enlargement of said wharf shall commence at a point
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Where enlarge-
ment to com-
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at the foot of High . street, on the northern point of
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mence.
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the said wharf connecting with said street, and run-
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ning the same course of said street towards the chan-
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nel of Choptank river, north fifty-one degrees east,
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until it reaches a point where this line is intersected
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by another line running in a northerly direction from
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the outer or river line of the pier, at the end of said
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wharf, and parallel with said pier, so that the outer or
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river line of this enlargement and extension, and the
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outer or river line of the said pier, shall be one and
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the same straight line; and no deposit of shells or any
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other impediment to free navigation shall extend
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beyond this said line, and the said extension and
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enlargement, when completed, shall be the property of
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the said William J. Thomas, provided that nothing
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