Conditions thereof. 
Remedy for damages. 
To erect fords or bridges when directed 
by a jury. 
Proviso. 
Commissioners to be appointed by the 
Governor to examine the improvements 
when completed, and report the same. 
Report to be laid before the Legisla- 
ture. 
Privilege thereupon granted. 
contiguous and near to the said river, giving notice to the owners or 
occupiers thereof, and from thence take and carry away any stone, 
timber, gravel, sand, earth or other material, doing as little damage 
thereto as possible, and repairing any breaches they make in the en- 
closures thereof, and making amends for any damages that may be done 
thereon, and paying for the materials to be taken away, the amount 
whereof, if the parties do not agree, shall be assessed and valued by any 
three disinterested freeholders residing in the neighborhood, under oath 
or affirmation, to be appointed by consent of the parties, or if they 
cannot agree, by any disinterested justice of the peace of the proper 
county, allowing an appeal to the court of common pleas as in the third 
section of this act. 
Sect. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
whenever any sluice or canal shall cross any public or private laid out 
road or highway, or shall divide the grounds of any person or persons 
into two parts, so as to require a ford or bridge to cross the same, the 
jury who shall enquire of the damages to be sustained, in manner di- 
rected by the third section of this act, shall find and ascertain whether 
a passage across the same shall be admitted or maintained by a ford or 
bridge to cross the same, and on such finding, the said Josiah White, 
George F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, shall 
cause a ford to be rendered practicable, or a bridge fit for the passage 
of carts and waggons to be built, and forever thereafter maintained and 
kept in repair, at all and every places so ascertained by the said jury, at 
the costs and charges of the said Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and 
Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, but nothing herein contained 
shall prevent any person from erecting and keeping in repair any foot 
or other bridge across any sluice or canal at his own expense, when 
the same shall pass through his ground: Provided, That such foot or 
other bridges so to be erected by the owners of such land, shall not 
interfere with any sluice or lock or other works of said Josiah White, 
George F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs or assigns. 
Sect. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
as soon as the said Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and Erskine 
Hazard, their heirs and assigns, shall have completed the improvements 
in the navigation of either of the grand sections hereinafter mentioned, 
in the manner prescribed in the first section of this act, they shall] give 
notice thereof to the Governor, who shall, as soon as conveniently may 
be, appoint five persons of skill and practical knowledge of river navi- 
gation, three of whom shall not reside in the neighbourhood of said 
river; and the said commissioners shall proceed to examine the said 
improvements, and make a detailed and specific report thereof to the 
Governor, accompanied with such observations as may serve to explain 
the same; and the said report shall be laid before the next succeeding 
legislature, and if the legislature shall approve of the said improvements 
in the navigation, then and in that case the said Josiah White, George 
F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, shall have 
the privilege and be entitled to use all the water from the said river, 
sluices, canals or other devices, to propel such machinery as they may 
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