LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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through the District of Columbia, on either of both sides of the
liver Potomac; Provided, that before this act shall take effect, the
congress of the United States shall authorise the states of Virgi-
nia and Maryland, or either of them, to take and continue a canal
from any point of the above named canal, or the termination there-
of, through the territory of the District of Columbia, or any part
thereof, to the territory of the said states, or either of them, in
any direction they may deem proper, upon the same terms and con-
ditions, and with all the rights and privileges and powers of every
kind whatsoever, that the company incorporated by this act have
to make the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; And provided also, that
in taking or extending such latteral canal or canals through the
District of Columbia by either of the said states, no impediment
or injury be done to the navigation of the said Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal.

Dec. Ses. 1824

Provisos.

22. 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 Virginia and Maryland, 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 congress of
the United States and the legislature of Maryland being given
thereto, and upon its receiving the further assent of the legislature
of Pennsylvania, the whole and every section and part thereof,
shall be valid and in full force and operation.

Conditions
stipulated.

23. Be it further enacted, That the assent of the congress of the
United States, required by the first section of this act, and the
authority conferred by the fourteenth section, is understood and
taken to relate only to their authority as the legislature of the Dis-
trict of Columbia.

Assent of
congress re-
stricted.

24. Be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts coming
within the purview of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby
repealed— Therefore,

Repeal.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
said act of the general assembly of Virginia, be, and the same is
hereby accepted, assented to, and confirmed.

Confirma-
tory clause.

2. And be it further enacted and declared, That by confirming
and accepting the act of Virginia, it is not intended by the legis-
lature of Maryland to deny to the congress of the United States,
the constitutional power to legislate on subjects of roads and canals.
And for the purpose of removing all doubt as to the right of the
state of Maryland to intersect the said Chesapeake and Ohio Ca-
nal, for the purpose of conducting a lateral canal or canals to Bal-
timore or elsewhere in the state of Maryland, from that part of the
said Chesapeake and Ohio canal which shall be within the district
of Columbia,

Restriction
referred to.

3. Be it further enacted and declared, That the said act of Vir-
ginia has been accepted and confirmed by the legislature of Mary-
land on the express condition, that the act of congress contem-
plated by the twenty first section of the Virginia act, shall direct
and provide some safe and practicable mode whereby such lateral
canal or canals may be secured to the state of Maryland; and
whereby also it may be determined whether such lateral canal or
canals will injure the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, within the
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Right to la-
teral canal
further pro-
vided for.