APPENDIX I.

ACTS of the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland , andof the Congress of the United States, incorporating the Chesapeakeand Ohio Canal Company —the Proceedings of the General SpecialMeeting of the Potowmac Company, declaring their assent thereto,made necessary by said acts, to which are added, extracts from theCharter of the Potowmac Company. [See Act of May 23, 1828,ch. 85, cited page 292.]

ACT OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.

An Act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company .

Whereas a navigable canal from the tide water of the river Potowmac, inthe District of Columbia , to the mouth of Savage creek on the north branchof said river, and extending thence, across the Alleghany mountain, to someconvenient point on the navigable waters of the river Ohio , or some one ofits tributary streams, to be fed, through its course, on the east side of themountain, by the river Potowmac and the streams which empty therein,and on the western side of the mountain, and in passing over the same, byall such streams of water as may be beneficially drawn thereto by feeders,dams, or any other practicable mode, will be a work of great profit and ad-vantage to the people of this state, and of the neighbouring states, and may,ultimately, tend to establish a connected navigation between the eastern andwestern waters, so as to extend and multiply the means and facilities of in-ternal commerce and personal intercourse between the two great sections ofthe United States , and to interweave more closely all the mutual interests andaffections that are calculated to consolidate and perpetuate the vital principlesof union ; and whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, that thePotowmac Company are willing and desirous that a charter shall be granted toa new company, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed; andthat the charter of the present company shall cease and determine,

1. lie it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia , That so soonas the Legislatures of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the Congress of theUnited States , shall assent to the provisions of this act, and the Potowmaccompany 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 afore-said, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States , there shall beappointed by the said executives and the President of the United States , threecommissioners on the part of each state, and of the government of the UnitedStates , any one of whom shall be competent to act for his respective govern-ment. The said commissioners shall cause books to be opened at such timesand places as they shall think fit, in their respective states, and the Districtof Columbia , under the management of such persons as they shall appoint,for receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of the company hereinafter in-corporated ; which subscriptions may be made either in person or by powerof attorney ; and notice shall be given in such manner as may be deemed advi-sable, by one or more of the said commissioners, of the time and places ofopening the books.

2. And the said commissioners shall cause the books to be kept open at leastforty days, and, within twenty days after the expiration thereof, shall call ageneral meeting of the subscribers at the city of Washington, of which meetingnotice shall be giyen, by a majority of the commissioners aforesaid, in at least

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Commissionersto be appointed.

Subscriptions.

Regulations asto subscriptions.