ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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make agreements with the proprietors of lands where-
by the water [... ] used for navigation,
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, that the president and directors shall be,
and they are hereby authorised and empowered to ex-
ercise the same powers and to pursue the same mea-
sures for acquiring and condemning lands for the pur-
poses aforesaid, on the branches of said river, and un-
der the same restrictions as are given and directed by
the fourth, eleventh and thirteenth sections of the act
of Assembly passed at November session seventeen
hundred and eighty-four, entitled, " An act for estab-
lishing a Company for opening and extending the
navigation of the river Potomac, " relative to the
acquiring and condemning lands for erecting locks
and making canals on that river. And moreover,
that the president and directors of the said com-
pany shall have, on the said branches, power to agree
with, the proprietors of the adjacent lands, as to
the manner of erecting dams and conducting the water,
so as to answer the purposes of navigation in such
places as in the opinion of the said president and di-
rectors it may be conveniently done; Provided never-
theless, That the privileges and power by this act con-
ferred, shall be construed to extend only to the princi-
pal branches or streams emptying into the Potomac, to
wit: the Monocacy, Antietam and Conegocheague,
leaving the other and smaller ones free and unoperated
upon, or bound by this act.

1812.

President and
directors au-
thorised to ex-
ercise certain
powers.

2. AND WHEREAS, persons owning land on the
said branches may be desirous to improve the same for
the purpose of manufacture; the said president and
directors are hereby fully authorised and empowered
to grant to the said persons the privilege of using the
surplus water for said purposes from time to time, as
they may be required so to do.

CHAPTER 209.

Surplus water.

An act for the relief of Sarah Ellis and her chil-
dren., of the city of Baltimore.

Passed Jan. 7,
1812

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General As-
sembly by the petition of John Ellis, James Lowrey
Donaldson, and Sarah Ellis, that the said John Ellis,
of the city of Baltimore, did, on the sixteenth day of
June eighteen hundred and eight, execute a deed of
trust to the said James Lowrey Donaldson and Sarah
Ellis, thereby conveying a certain house and lot situ-

"Preamble.