PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847,

affidavit thereto attached, that he, the said Edmund
Davis, has not brought or removed said slave into this
State for sale, and that the said negro Henry Demmit is
slave for life; and provided, that the said Edmund
Davis will pay the sum of fifteen dollars for said slave,
to the clerk of said county court, to be paid over to the
Treasurer of Maryland for the use and benefit of the
colonization society.

CHAPTER 116.

CHAP. 116.

An act to incorporate the Potomac Navigation Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Alexander Hamilton, John A. Stemm-
ler, James Hunter, Charles F. Mayer, James Swan,
John Ward, James Brown Strong and John J. Lagrave,
and such others as may hereafter be associated with

Passed
Feb. 9, 1848.

Incorporated.

them, shall be and they are hereby incorporated and
made a body politic and corporate, by the name and
style of the Potomac Navigation Company, for the pur-
pose of constructing a canal or slackwater navigation,
or both, on the north branch of the Potomac river, from
any point where the waters of Wills' creek and the Po-
tomac unite, to take, transport and carry property and
persons upon the same by the power and force of steam,
of animals or of any mechanic or other power, or of any
combination of them, which the said company may
choose to employ, and by that name they and their suc-
cessors, shall be and they are hereby vested with the
right and privilege of constructing, erecting, building,
making and using a canal or slackwater navigation, or
both combined, for the purpose aforesaid, for the time
of fifty years from the passage of this act.

Name and
style.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the corporation
hereby created shall not within twelve months from the
passage of this act, make a survey of the north branch
of the Potomac. river, and file a map thereof in the clerk's
office of the county of Allegany, and within two years
from the passage of this act, commence, and within four
years from the passage of this act, construct, finish and
put in operation the said canal or slackwater naviga-
tion, then the said corporation shall thenceforth forever
cease, and this act shall be null and void.

In force.