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Passed March
3, 1845.
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A supplement to, an act entitled, an act in aid of the Susque-
hanna Canal Company, and of the Tide Water Canal
Company, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and forty-three, chapter three hundred and sixty-three.
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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
by the President and Managers of the Susquehanna Canal
Company, that there are unsatisfied claims against said
company, for damages sustained by the owners of land,
occupied or used by said company, in the construction of
said canal; and that said unsatisfied claims, inclusive of
legal costs and incidental expenses, will not, when defi-
nitely ascertained, exceed, as it is supposed, the sum of
twenty thousand dollars; but the payment of which said
claims, when ascertained, if made in money, out of the
revenues of said company, will seriously interfere with
said company in the fulfilment of its obligations to this
State; AND WHEREAS ALSO, it is further represented, that
a portion of the revenues of said company, derivable from
the tolls on the descending trade of said canal, (to wit, on
all the descending trade of said canal, obtained from its
connection with the Conestoga navigation, ) has been
heretofore absorbed, in the gradual payment of debts,
specially incurred by said company, in forming the said
connection with the said Conestoga navigation, as re-
quired by the act of incorporation of said company; and
that for the payment of said debts, the aforesaid lolls of
said company were, by express agreement, specially as-
signed and dedicated; and that the unpaid residue of
said debts, inclusive of the cost of the required motive
power to secure a safe and easy passage, as required by
said act of incorporation, from one to the other of said
works, does not now exceed the sum of seventeen thou-
sand dollars; but that the gradual payment thereof, in
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