LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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that those persons who shall have attended as petit jurors, during
the first three weeks of the term shall be discharged on the third Sa-
turday of the term or as soon thereafter as any cause or causes
which they or part of them may be impanelled to try, shall be dis-
posed of by verdict or otherwise.

Dec. Ses. l823

3 And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after
the termination of the ensuing March term.

Law to take
effect.

CHAPTER 139.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the

levy court of Baltimore county, at the time of laying their next coun-
ty levy shall be and they are hereby required and directed to assess
and levy on the assessable property of Baltimore county, the sum
of two hundred dollars and one hundred dollars yearly tor the two
succeeding years, to be collected as other county levies, are collected
and that the same be applied in Baltimore county, to the opening and
making the road as altered and amended by the commissioners ap-
pointed by the act, to which this is a supplement.

Passed Feb.
14, 1824.
Levy $400.

CHAPTER 140.

An act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

WHEREAS, a navigable canal from the tide water of the River Po-

tomac in the district of Columbia to the mouth of Savage creek on

the north branch of the said river, and extending thence across the

Allegany Mountain to some convenient point on the navigable waters

of the Mountain, and in passing over the same, by all such streams of

water as may be beneficially drawn thereto be feeders, dams or in any

other practicable mode, will be a work of great profit and advantage

to the people of this state and of the neighboring states, and may

ultimately tend to establish a connected navigation between the eas-
tern and western waters, so as to extend and multiply the means and

facilities of interior commerce and personal intercourse between the

two great sections of the United States and to interweave more close-

ly all the mutual interests and affections that are calculated to conso-

lidate and perpetuate the vital principles of union; and whereas it is

represented to the general assembly, that the Potomac Company are

willing and desirous that a charter shall be granted to a new com-

pany upon the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed, and that
the charter of the present company shall cease and determine--

Passed Feb.
9, 1824.
Preamble.

Therefore;

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

so soon as the legislatures of Virginia and Pennsylvania, and the the

Congress of the United States shall assent to the provisions of this

act, and the Potomac Company shall have signified their assent to

the same by their corporate act, a copy whereof shall be delivered

to the executives of the several states aforesaid, and to the secretary

of the treasury of the United States, there shall be appointed by the

said executives respectively, and the President of the United States,

three commissioners on the part of each state, and of the govern-

ment of the United States, any one of whom shall be competent to

Commission-
ers to open
books.