LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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appeals of the western shore, there to be kept as other public records
are kept.
12. And be it enacted, That all and singular the rights, privileges
and advantages heretofore granted to the proprietors of the Susque-
hanna Canal, by the act, entitled, an act for making the river Susque-
hanna navigable from the line of this state to tide water, or by any of
the supplements thereto, be, and the same are hereby reserved to the
said proprietors as fully and entirely, as if this act have never been
passed; and in order that the rights of the said proprietors under the
act and supplements aforesaid, and the injury, if any, by them sus-
tained by the operation of this act, may be speedily and fairly ascer-
tained.

Dec. Ses. 1823

Rights of
Susquehanna
Canal Com-
pany reser-
ved.

13. And be it enacted, That in the event of this law being accepted
as herein after provided, and before any thing shall be done in execu-
tion thereof by the actual commencement of the work of the said Bal-
timore Canal, on the banks of the said river Susquehanna, the judges
of Anne-Arundel County Court shall be, and they are hereby autho-
rised and required upon the Application of the proprietors of the said
Susquehanna Canal, and upon due examination of the said original
act and supplements thereto, adjudge and decree what are the rights
of the said proprietors under the same, and shall record the same
among the records of Anne-Arundel county court, and if the said
court shall be of opinion that the aforesaid proprietors have any right
or interest in the waters of the river Susquehanna which were granted
by the said original act and supplements, and which will be injured or
destroyed in the manner contemplated by the original act and supple-
ments thereto, by the canal authorised by this act, then and in such
case the aforesaid judges shall issue their writ to the sheriff of Anne-
Arundel county, setting forth their opinion, and requiring him to
summon twelve good and lawful men wholly without interest in the
said Susquehanna Canal, who being duly sworn in such form as the
court shall prescribe, to act impartially and honestly in the premises,
shall be charged by the court to ascertain and assess the damages
which the said proprietors or company sustain by reason of the canal
authorised by this act, and the verdict of the said jury shall be con-
clusive upon the said company or proprietors, and no appeal shall be
had from the same on the proceedings of the court in the premises.

How to be
ascertained.

14. And be it enacted, That the amount so ascertained and assessed
shall be paid for in a certificate or certificates of stock to be issued
by the corporation of the City of Baltimore, giving and granting to
the said proprietors, an interest in the canal authorised by this act,
equal to the amount of the damages so assessed and ascertained, and
specifying in the said certificates that the holders thereof shall re-
ceive a rateable proportion of the dividends of the tolls received
from the said canal in the same manner that such dividends may be
declared and paid to the other holders of capital expended in making

How paid

for.

said canal;—Provided, that the damages may in the option of the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, be, at any time paid to the said
proprietors, and the certificates thereof redeemed upon giving not
less than sixty days notice.

Proviso.

15. And be it enacted, That the persons who now ate 6r maybe ap-
pointed to hold elections in the several wards of the said city for de-
legates to the General Assembly, shall, and it is hereby required of
them, to hold and conduct an election for the said delegates to the
said convention in the tame manner that elections for delegates to

Election of
delegates.