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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 311.

Passed
Mar. 10, 185

AN ACT to incorporate the Chesapeake and Potomac
Canal Company.

Incorporated.

Name.

Object.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Col. Augustus R. Sellers, Gen.
Thomas F. Bowie, James S. Morsell, Jr., Thomas J.
Hellen and George D. Lyles, and their successors, and
all other persons who may be stockholders are hereby
constituted, and made a body corporate by the name of
the Chesapeake and Potomac Canal Company, for the
purpose of cutting and making a canal with all the
locks and other things requisite to connect the waters

of the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac river from some
point on Herring Bay, or what is called the Cove, an
arm of the Chesapeake, across to the Patuxent river,
and from thence to the Potomac river, and by the afore-
said corporate name are hereby, and shall be capable
in law of purchasing, holding, selling and conveying
estates, real, personal and mixed, so far as the same
may be necessary and convenient for the purpose of
cutting and constructing any and every thing connected
with the full completion, operation and repairs of said

Condemnation
of land.

canal and for no other purpose whatsoever; and in case
the owner or owners of any land and materials neces-
sary for the culling, making and, completion of said
canal can not agree as to the price of the same, then
the company shall apply to a justice of the peace, of
the county through which the said canal is intended to
pass, and the said justice shall issue a warrant under
his hand and seal, to the sheriff of the county to sum-
mon a jury of twenty men, inhabitants of his county,
related to the parties or in any manner connected
or interested, to meet on the land to be valued on
a day to be expressed in said warrant, not less than
ten nor more than twenty days thereafter, and if at the
said time and place any of said jurors do not attend,
said sheriff shall immediately summon as many jurors
as may be necessary to have in attendance the number
of twenty and from which number each party may
strike four, and the said sheriff shall, when the said
jury has been thus ascertained, administer an oath or
affirmation to every juror, that he will faithfully, justly
and impartially, value the land and all other property
or damages, the owner or owners thereof may sustain,
and the inquisition or valuation taken thereupon shall