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LAWS OF MARYLAND

John W. Garrett, Isaac L. Adkins, William H.

Smith, William McKenny, James Wallace, George B.

Wcscott, William K. Lockwood, James H. Holmes,

William J. S. Clarke, Thomas S. Hodson, of the

State of Maryland; and James Pander, J. Turpin

Moore, Albert Curry, James R. Lofland, Edward L.

Martin, of the State of Delaware, and their associ-

ates and successors and all other persons who may

be stockholders as hereinafter provided, are hereby

constituted and made a body corporate by the name

of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay Ship Canal

Company, for the purpose of cutting and making a

ship canal; the object of which shall be to connect

the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware bays

with all the works, locks, offices and appurtenances

Point of start-

that may be necessary; the said canal shall start

Ing.

from or at a point on the Chesapeake bay or some

of the rivers, estuaries, creeks or some of the same,

or emptying into the same not above Elk river, and

run to the State line of Delaware and Maryland ;

and by the aforesaid corporate name the said Henry

C. Smith, John E. Hurst, William H. Baldwin, Jr.,

William T. Dixon, Joseph E. Bruff, Eugene Lever-

ing, Daniel J. Foley, John W. Garrett, Isaac L.

Adkins, William H. Smith, William McKenny,

James Wallace, George B. Wescott, William K.

Lockwood, James H. Holmes, William J S. Clarke,

Thomas S. Hodson, James Pander. J. Turpin Moore,

Albert Curry, James R. Lofland and Edward L.

Martin, their associates and successors, and all other

persons who may be stockholders as hereinafter pro-

Capable in

vided, shall be and they are hereby made capable

law.

in law of purchasing, holding, leasing, selling, con-

veying estate, real, personal and mixed, so far as

shall be necessary and convenient for the purpose

aforesaid and hereinafter mentioned, and no further ;

and shall have perpetual succession, and by said

corporate name may sue and be sued, and have and

use a common seal, and the same alter and re-

new at pleasure, and also to ordain, establish and

put in execution such by-laws, ordinances and regu-

lations as shall seem necessary for the government

and management of said corporation, and to alter

and repeal the same at pleasure; and shall have and

exercise all the rights, powers and privileges which