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Section 9. That the acting canal commissioners on each section 

 of the canal respectively, be, and are hereby authorized to make 

 such alterations as may appear to be expedient, in the route and 

 location of any state, county, or township road, along which, or in 

 the immediate vicinity whereof, the canal or any part thereof does 

 or shall pass, and to lay out and open to such width as shall be 

 necessary, so much of any of the said roads as shall be re-located ; 

 and such new route of any of the said roads shall be considered as 

 a public highway, be supported and kept in repair as other high- 

 ways in this commonwealth are supported and kept in repair ; 

 and, so much of the route of any road as may be altered, shall be 

 thereby vacated; and the said acting canal commissioners respec- 

 tively, are hereby required to make a report of the alterations made 

 in the route of any road, under the provisions of this section, to the 

 clerk of the quarter sessions of the county wherein the said road is 

 located; provided, That any person interested who may be dis- 

 satisfied with the determination of said commissioners, shall have 

 the right of appealing by petition, to the board of canal commission- 

 ers, whose determination thereon shall be final. 



Section 10. That the canal commissioners be and they are 

 hereby required, during the ensuing year, to call upon and receive, 

 or cause to be called upon and received, from all and every person 

 or persons, as far as conveniently can be done, who are the owners 

 of land, along or near the several proposed lines of canals, as pro- 

 vided for in this act, acquittances or releases from any claim to 

 damages, in case the said lines of communication shall pass through 

 their lands, and for materials that may be taken to carry on the 

 work. 



Section 11. That the commissioners are hereby required, as 

 soon as may be convenient, to cause surveys and estimates to be 

 made through the valleys of the Conodoguinnet, Yellow Breeches 

 and Conocheague creeks, with a view to the connection of the rivers 

 Susquehanna and Potomac, by a canal, and make report of the 

 practicability and probable expense thereof; and also to view and 

 examine the ground from the west end of the Harrisburg bridge 

 to the borough of Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin, and 

 from the west end of Columbia bridge, through York and Gettys- 

 burg, to Chambersburg, for the purpose of constructing a railroad, 

 and make an estimate of the probable expense for constructing 

 said railroad, and make report thereof to the governor, who is 

 hereby required to lay the same before the legislature, on or before 

 the first day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. 



Section 12. That the board of canal commissioners are hereby 

 authorized and required, if they deem it necessary, previous to the 

 location of that part of the canal from the eastern section to a 

 point at or near Northumberland, on the West Branch, to cause a 

 survey and exploration on the east sid6 of the Susquehanna, from 

 the end of the said eastern section, to a point opposite the town of 

 Northumberland. And the said board, after taking into view the 

 relative advantages, facilities, costs of construction, and interest 



