Appendixes 
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CHAPTER CII. 
AN ACT 
To improve the navigation of the river Lehigh. 
Persons authorised to improve the 
Lehigh. 
Power to enter thereon, &c. 
and to use timber, rocks, &c. 
and make dams, dams, locks, &c, of a 
certain description. 
Proviso. 
2d proviso. 
Remedy of persons injured by dams 
or swelling the water. 
22 L ULLETIN 
Sect. 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and 
it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may 
be lawful to and for Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and Erskine 
Hazard, of the county of Philadelphia, their heirs and assigns, or in 
case any or either of them should die, for the survivor or survivors, his 
or their heirs and assigns, their surveyors, engineers, superintendents, 
artists and workmen, to enter upon the said river Lehigh, to open, 
enlarge or deepen the same in any part or place thereof, between the 
Great Falls and the mouth of the said river Lehigh, in the manner 
which shall appear to them most convenient for opening, enlarging, 
changing, making anew or improving the channel; and also to cut, 
break, remove and take away all trees, rocks, stones, earth, gravel, sand 
or other material, or any impediments whatsoever within the said river; 
and to use all such timber, rocks, stones, gravel earth or other material 
in the construction of their necessary works, and to form, make, erect, 
set up any dams, locks or any other device whatsoever, which they shall 
think most fit and convenient to make a good navigation downward at 
least once in every three days, except during winter, with a channel not 
less than twenty feet wide and eighteen inches deep, for arks and rafts, 
and of sufficient depth of water to float down boats of the burthen of 
one hundred barrels, or ten tons; Provided, That during the said three 
days there shall be no interruption to the said navigation for or by rea- 
son of any neglect or default of the said Josiah White, George F. A. 
Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns: Provided also, That 
no toll shall be demanded for any boat, vessel or craft in going up said 
river, unless the same is converted into a complete slack water 
navigation, as provided by this act. 
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, ‘That 
if any person or persons shall be injured by means of any dam or dams 
being erected, or the land of any person inundated by swelling the water 
by means of any dam or dams, or any mill or other water works injured 
by swelling the water into the tail-race of any mill or other water works 
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