1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 291.

Passed Mar. 22,1833

CHAPTER 291.

An act to provide for the continuation of the Baltimore and
and Ohio Rail Road to Harper's Ferry, and for other
purposes.

Rail Road Compa-
ny may subscribe

for 2,300 shares

canal stock

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Baltimore and Chip Rail Road Com-
pany be, and it is hereby authorised to subscribe for twenty-
five hundred shares of the stock of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, and to pay, whenever the Baltimore

When to pay for

and Ohio Rail Road shall be completed to Harper's Ferry,
upon the terms hereinafter stipulated, such proportion of
said stock as shall be proportionally equal to the amount
which shall at that time have been paid on the stock held
by the State in the said Canal Company, the balance of
the stock so subscribed by the said Rail Road Company to
be paid as the capital stock generally of the said Canal

When Rail Road

is completed to

Harper's Ferry

Company, shall be called in and paid.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever the Balti-
more and Ohio Rail Road shall be completed, upon the
terms hereinafter stipulated, to Harper's Ferry, the assent

Assent given to

set of Virginia of

27th February 1829

of this State be, and the same is hereby given, to an act
of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, entitled,
an act further to amend an act incorporating the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company, which passed February
the twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and
to another act of the same state, entitled, "an act to amend

And of 11th Feb-
ruary, 1830.

the charter of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,
by authorising the commencement of the western section
of the canal, which passed February the thirteenth, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty; Provided, that in the exercise of
the powers conferred upon the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company by the first of those acts of selling or

No sale of surplus

water except by

writing

otherwise disposing of surplus water, an absolute sale shall
in all cases be made of such surplus water, by conveyance
in writing; and provided also, that the said Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company shall not at any time, or at any
place, be authorised to sell or dispose of surplus water,

No violation of

private water rights

when such sale, by diminishing the quantity of water in
the bed of the river, shall injure the water rights of any
individual whatsoever; and no part of the said surplus
water, authorised to be disposed of by the said act, shall

No sale for manu-

facture grain

be applied anywhere within this State, to the manufacture
of any species or description of grain; and provided also,
that the tolls charged on the said canal for the transports-