Chapter LI. *further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.*(*a*)(*a*)See Appendix, No. 2
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Chap. LI.— An Act *further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.*(*a*)(*a*)See Appendix, No. 2.March 3, 1837. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAct of May 23, 1828, ch. 85.Act of General Assembly of Va., passed 27th Feb., 1829, assented to. the act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled “An act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,” passed the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, be, and the same is hereby assented to and approved.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatPersons within the D. C., wickedly, &c., injuring the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, its embankments, &c., liable to fine, &c. if any person or persons shall, within the District of Columbia, wickedly, or maliciously, do injury to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, its embankments, walls, moles, tow-paths, bridges, culverts, drains, or to any part necessary to the uses and purposes of said canal, he, she, or they, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five or more than fifty dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the District of Columbia; and any such justice may, on his own view, or on application verified by affidavit, to said justice made, issue his warrant, describing the injury committed, and, upon conviction, the said justice shall have authority to commit the offender to close jail, without bail or mainprise, until said fine and costs be paid, or until said defendant be discharged by due course of law: *Provided, however,*Proviso.
That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent said canal company from recovering damages from any person or persons who may commit any of the trespasses aforesaid. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatCondemnations of land by the marshal of D. C., &c. all condemnations of land for the use and purposes of said canal company, which have heretofore been made by the marshal of said District, or any lawful deputy marshal, shall be as valid as though the same had been situated in the State of Maryland, and had been condemned in pursuance of the laws of said State, through the action and agency of a sheriff of any of the counties of said State.
Approved, March 3, 1837. Chapter LII: to authorize the New Orleans and Carrolton Railroad Company to construct a railroad from Carrolton to the fawn of Bayou Sara, in the State of Louisiana. 5 Stat. 197 1837-03-03 Chapter LII United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-29 24 1 public
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*further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.*(*a*)(*a*)See Appendix, No. 2
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