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to stand in need of its proportion of the same, then
the Treasurer shall be authorised, with the consent of
said company, to advance the same to any other of
said companies; provided, that such company to whom
the same is advanced, shall not receive more than its
full quota of the whole sum of eight millions of
dollars.
Resolved, That no part of the money so received
by the Treasurer, shall be paid to the Annapolis and
Potomac Canal Company, but that such proportion
thereof shall be paid to the Annapolis and Elk Ridge
Rail Road Company, as the said company may be en-
titled to receive, according to the conditions and pro-
visions of the act passed December session eighteen
hundred and thirty-six, chapter two hundred and nine-
ty-eight.
Resolved, That the Maryland Canal Company is
entitled to no subscription on the part of this State,
under the provisions of the said act of Assembly, un-
less they will agree to locate their canal from the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the city of Baltimore,
by the most northern practicable route of the routes
by the vallies of the Monocacy and Patapsco, or by a
route diverging from the said Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal, at the mouth of Seneca river, exclusively with-
in the limits of this State; provided, such route be
found practicable, with a due supply of water.
Resolved, That the Governor be, and he is hereby
authorized to direct a survey to be made of the afore-
said routes, so that the practicability of constructing
the said canal by either of the said routes may be as-
certained at as early a period as possible, and report
the same to the next General Assembly.
No. 27.
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