1620 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 696

connection with said canal, and generally to do and perform all
such acts and things, and make all such agreements and con-
tracts as may be necessary for the objects and purposes of the
construction, ownership and operation of said canal, or of any
business connected therewith.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Company shall have
the right and power to determine the width, course and depth,
of said canal, which shall not exceed forty feet (40) in width
on the surface at mean low water, and shall have a depth of
not less than five (5) feet at mean low water, and to contract
for and acquire the right of way over and through the lands
where the said canal may run, or be constructed, provided that
if said land, right of way, easements, or any of the property
necessary for the construction, ownership and operation of
said canal cannot be acquired and secured by agreement with
the owner or owners thereof, or any part thereof, or if the
owner or owners, or any of them, be a feme covert, under age,
non compos mentis, out of the county in which the property
needed or required may be located when or at the time the
same may be needed, or if for any reason whatever the said
Company cannot obtain or acquire the land, right of way, ease-
ments or property necessary for the construction, ownership
and operation of said canal, the said Company shall have the
right and power to acquire the same by condemnation in the
manner now provided by the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland; and provided, further, that the said Company shall
not only have the right and power to secure and acquire by
contract, gift, purchase, deed, conveyance of any kind, or con-
demnation proceedings the land, right of way, easements or
property necessary for the construction, ownership and oper-
ation of said canal channel proper, of the dimensions herein-
before set forth, but the said Company shall also have the
right and power to secure and acquire by contract, gift, pur-
chase, deed, conveyance of any kind, or condemnation proceed-
ings,. as hereinbefore set forth, a strip of land on each side of
said canal not to exceed forty (40) feet in width, and to run
along with, bind on and border upon each side of the said canal
channel proper, the said strips of land on each side of said canal
to be in addition to the said canal channel proper, which said
canal channel proper shall not exceed forty (40) feet in width,
at mean low water, as hereinbefore set forth; and the said Com-
pany shall have all other right, powers and privileges which
are granted by the General Laws of the State of Maryland ap-