WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Tide Water canal
company, who, by the fourth section of the act of Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter
four hundred and sixteen, entitled an act to ensure the com-
pletion of the Susquehanna canal and of the Tide Water

CHAP. 98.

canal, are directed, under the terms and conditions in said
section mentioned, to make and construct, within the period
of four months from the completion of their canal, the
Out-let lock, also therein mentioned, be and the same are
hereby directed to make and construct said lock at any
time within the period of eight months, from and after the
first day of February, in the present year, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one; and that such lock shall be of
like dimensions and character with the existing lock on
said canal, immediately above the point at which said Out-
let lock is directed to be made; and that the same shall be
so constructed, and extended into tire river Susquehanna,
as readily, at all times, to admit the passage of the boats,
rafts, arks and every other kind of vehicle which now tra-
verses, or shall hereafter traverse said canal, in and out of
said Out-let lock, into and out of said river.

CHAPTER 98.

Construct out-
let lock within
limited period.

An act to enlarge the powers of Courts of Equity.

Passed Jan. 27,

1841.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the High Court of Chancery, and the several county
courts, as courts of equity, shall have full concurrent juris-
diction with the courts of law, in all claims for dower, and
shall have power to try all questions of law which may
arise in such cases, and give as full relief in any case as
the complainant could have obtained heretofore in either a
court of equity or a court of law, or in both courts.

Courts of equi-
ty to have juris-
diction in all
claims of dower.