2.  BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the proprietors of the Susquehanna canal be and they are hereby
authorised and empowered, by ordinance or ordinances, to increase
the tolls upon the said canal not exceeding quadruple the sum at
which they are respectively fixed by the act, entitled, A supplement
to the act for making the river Susquehanna navigable from 
the line of this state to tide water, and to collect and receive the
said tolls so increased, and to compel the payment thereof in the
manner prescribed by the third section of the aforesaid supplement,
passed at November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-four. *

CHAP. 102.

Tolls may be increased.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

* 1784, ch. 65.

†  Ch. 17.

    This act provided for the erection of a bridge over Patapsco river at the lower
ferry, and the act was to be void if the bridge was not begun and rendered passable
by particular periods; which was not the case.

                                Supplements, ch. 108, and 1805, ch. 81.
    The following persons were petitioners for relief under this act, viz.  Daniel
Knock and Trueman Hawley, of Kent county, Vachel Dorsey, of Johnzee, Jonathan
Beard and Richard Chew, of Anne-Arundel county, Philip Trueman Briscoe,
Thomas Trueman Greenfield, Benjamin S, Smoot, John Maddox, John F.
Beall, Joseph Boarman, of Raphael, and Henry Hagan, of Charles county, John
Coulter, James Bond, William Nace, George Culloden, William Price, Thomas
McLaughlin, Maximilian Heuisler, Vachel Dorsey, of Johnzce, John Lee, Nicholas
Reynolds, James Hooker, James Dunning, Caleb Green, John Hook, Abraham,
Hauffman, Bartholomew Donovan, George Nace, junior, John Walter,
Thomas Royston, James Williamson, John Parish, Thomas T. Greenfield, William
Belton, John Maxwell, Abraham Underwood, Samuel Croxall, William
Payne Penn, Edward Dennison, John Brady and Stephen Wilson, of Baltimore
county, Charles Gulley and Samuel Nichols, of Talbot county, John Gray, Thomas
Biddle, Alexander Cathcart and John Savin, of Cecil county, Leonard
Townsend, Samuel Evans, John Spalding and Richard G. Hardesty, of Prince-George's
county, William Wells, of the city of Annapolis, Robert Stevens, of
Queen-Anne's county, Robert H. Ward, Philip Bier, junior, Issac Parvin, John
Parvin, William Parvin, Mark Parvin, Jeremiah Gilbert, David McCleary and
Jaen Payen Boisneuf, of Frederick county, James Duley, Lemuel Howard, James
Johnson, Clement Waltham, Aquila McComas, Winstone Smith and John Hyland,
of Harford county, William Priest, William Boon, Jeremiah D. Nichols,
Andrew Hall and William Crawford, of Caroline county, John Fisher, Raymond
Dumas, Samuel H. Gatchell, John Gordon, Richard Phillips, Henry Lenhart,
junior, Philip Lewis, James Williamson, Isaac Mordecai, John Robinson, Mordecai 
M. Mordecai, Charles Rogers, Hiel Peck, James Clarke, Benjamin Thomas,
Owen Roberts, Thomas Cave, James Bouchell, George Bobst, Elihu Underwood,
Nicholas Walter, Thomas Bailey, Jonas Yoner, George Lee, Winkles
Bardin Goldthwait, Warner Lyle Nicholl, senior, Michael Branson, John Maxwell,
Peter Pollard, Hugh Boner, Robert Mickle, William Bruff, Henry Brown,
Arthur Smith, Samuel Allen, George L. Gray, Edward Woodyear and John
Harris, of the city of Baltimore, Thomas Evans and Samuel Bayly, of Washington
county, Edward Viers, of Montgomery county, George Dent and John Arnold,
of Allegany county, Aaron Rawlings of Calvert county.
                                        See note under 1800, ch. 44.