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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1823

nal or canals through the District of Columbia by either of the said
states, that no injury or impediment be done to the navigation of the
said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. And in order to ascertain whether
any lateral canal or canals which either of the said states of Mary-
land, Pennsylvania or Virginia may propose to connect with the
said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal will injure or impede the navi-
gation of the same the President of the United States shall
upon the application of the state wishing; to cut such lateral ca-
nal or canals, appoint some officer or officers of the United States
engineer corps to decide the same, and the decision of such officer
or officers when returned to the President and by him approved shall
be final and conclusive on the state making the application aforesaid
and the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal company, and the costs
attending the same shall be paid by the state making such application.

Conditions
stipulated.

22. And be it enacted, That this act or so much thereof as respects
the canal and works designed to be constructed in the District of
Columbia and the states of Maryland and Virginia shall take effect
with such necessary modification in the construction thereof, as shall
fit it for such limited application or use, upon the assent of the Con-
gress of the United States and the legislature of Virginia being given
thereto, and upon its receiving the further assent of the legislature
of Pennsylvania, the whole and every section and the part thereof
shall be valid and in full force and operation.

Repeal.

23. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts corning
within the purview of this act shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

Passed Feb.

18, 1824.

Tuition.

CHAPTER 141.
An act to disseminate Literature in this state.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the
passage of this act, that each School, Academy or College, that re-
ceives a donation in money from this state shall afford tuition in all
the branches of learning taught in such School, Academy or College,
and shall furnish the necessary school books, free of any charge, to at
least one poor child for every hundred dollars that each School, Aca-
demy or College, receives from the state.

Selection of
children.

S. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the trustees of
each School, Academy or College, receiving a donation in money
from this state, to select the number of children to be educated
agreeably to the provisions of this act from among the poor children
of the county or counties to which such School, Academy, or College
belongs having due regard to the pecuniary situation of the persons
so selected.

Annual re-
turn.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the trustees of the
several Schools, Academies and Colleges, that receive donations in
money from this state, to make an annual return to the legislature of
the number of poor children educated at their respective Schools,
Academies or Colleges.

Passed Feb.
18, 1824.
Preamble.

CHAPTER 142.

An additional supplement to an act to incorporate a company for erecting a
Bridge over Nanticoke River, at or near Vienna, in Dorchester County.
Whereas, the act to which this is a supplement, reserves one third
of the stock for the use of the state, which proportion was subscribed
for, and is now held by the state, no director has been appointed on
the part of the state to manage its concerns in said company;—
Therefore,