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APPENDIX A
AN ACT FOR OPENING AND EXTENDING THE NAVIGATION OF POTOWMACK RIVER[1]
I. Whereas the extension of the navigation of Potowmack river, from tide water to the highest place practicable on the North branch, will be of great public utility, and many persons are willing to subscribe large sums of money to effect so laudable and beneficial a work; and it is just and proper that they, their heirs, and assigns, should be empowered to receive reasonable tolls forever, in satisfaction for the money advanced by them in carrying the work into execution, and the risk they run: And whereas it may be necessary to cut canals and erect locks and other works on both
- ↑ We present here the first three sections of the act as given in Hening's The Statutes at Large; being a collection of all the Laws of Virginia from the first session of the Legislature in the year 1619 . . (Richmond, 1823), vol. xi, 9th of Commonwealth, ch. xliii, October, 1784.
