modities, one sixth part of the amount of tolls allowed by law to be received by the Potomac Company, at the Great Falls of the river Potomac. And the said company shall also have the exclusive right to establish a packet boat or boats upon the said canal for carrying passengers, and no other packet boat or boats, but such as are established or permitted by them, shall be allowed to carry passengers through the same for hire.
Public property free of toll.
Limitation of the time when the canal shall be finished.Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That all public property shall pass through the said canal free of toll, and also, that in case the said canal and one of the forks thereof, shall not be completed within the term of seven years from the passage of this act, in such manner as to admit boats and scows drawing three feet water to pass through the same, that the said canal shall revert to the United States, and all right and authority hereby granted to the said company shall cease and determine.
Bridges may be erected over the canal.
Proviso.Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall, from time to time, whenever and wherever the mayor and city council shall order and direct, suffer bridges to be erected across the canal, and shall suffer the same when erected to be repaired: Provided, that every bridge so erected, shall be at least six feet above the high water mark.
Annual statement of the receipts and expenditures to be laid before Congress.Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That the president and directors of said company, after the said canal shall be opened and made passable for boats and scows drawing three feet water, shall annually, in the month of January, lay before the Congress of the United States, a just and true account of their receipts and expenditures, with a statement of the clear profits thereof.
Approved, February 16, 1809.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of Government during the year one thousand eight hundred and nine.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands, and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims; the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, two hundred and one thousand, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the expense of firewood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, twenty-eight thousand dollars.
For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian’s allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, eight hundred dollars.
For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, including the sum of one1806, ch. 41. thousand dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
