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APPENDIX I.
May 16, 1825.
Proceedingsof the generalmeeting of Po-towmac Com-pany.
We hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the original act, aspassed both branches of the legislature at December session, eighteen hundredand .twenty-four.
John Brewer, Clerk House Del.
ACT OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES .
An ad confirming an act of the legislature of Virginia , entitled “ An act incor-porating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company ,” and an act of the state ofMaryland , confirming the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Statesof America in Congress assembled, That the act of the legislature of the state ofVirginia, entitled “ An act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio CanalCompany, ” be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed, so far as maybe necessary for the purpose of enabling any company, that may hereafter beformed by the authority of said act of incorporation, to carry into effect theprovisions thereof, in the District of Columbia , within the exclusive jurisdic-tion of the United States , and no further.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, should the state of Virginia orMaryland desire at any time, to avail itself of the rights secured to it, by thetwenty-first section of the act aforesaid, to take and continue a canal, from anypoint of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal , to any other point within the terri-tory of the District of Columbia , or through the same, on application to thePresident of the United States , by the executive of a state, the President isauthorized and empowered to depute three skilful commissioners of the UnitedStates ’ corps of engineers, to survey and examine so mueh of the route ofsuch canal as may affect, in any manner, the navigation of the Chesapeakeand Ohio canal . The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shallascertain, as far as practicable, whether the canal proposed to be constructedby the state aforesaid will injure or impede the navigation of the Chesapeakeand Ohio canal, and report to the President of the United States the factsand reasons on which they may ground their judgment thereupon; whichreport shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States , at their sessionnext ensuing the date thereof, for their decision thereon; and, if Congress shall be of opinion that the said canal may be cut in the manner proposed asaforesaid, without impeding or injuring the navigation of the Chesapeake andOhio Canal , the same shall be conclusive thereon.
Approved, March 3, 1825.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL MEETING OF THEPOTOWMAC COMPANY.
Georgetown, D. C. , 16th May, 1825.
At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Potowmac Company, heldthis day at Semmes’ Tavern, previous notice thereof having been given con-formably to law—
The following resolutions were unanimously adopted : „
That this meeting having duly considered the act of the General Assemblyof the state of Virginia , passed at the December session thereof, in the year1823, entitled “ An act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com-pany,” and the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, and of the Congressof the United States , confirming the same, and being willing and desirousthat the charter shall be granted and confirmed to the said Chesapeake andOhio Canal Company , do hereby declare the full and free assent of the Potow-mac Company, to the said act incorporating the said Chesapeake and OhioCanal Company , and to all the provisions thereof.
That the President of the Potowmac Company be, and he is hereby, requiredto deliver to the executives of the states of Virginia, Maryland, and Penn-sylvania, respectively, and to the Secretary of the Treasury of the UnitedStates , copies of the aforegoing declaration of assent and corporate act of thePotowmac Company, as required by the first section of the act of the GeneralAssembly of Virginia, entitled “ An act incorporating the Chesapeake andOhio Canal Company .”