Survivors may complete the work. 
Duty in case the legislature deem the 
navigation insufficient. 
Tolls in case of a complete slack water 
navigation. 
Proviso. 
Duty in case of the legislature directing 
a slack water navigation. 
Privileges allowed in such case of using 
the water to propel machinery. 
or survivors or the heirs or assigns of either or all of them to complete 
the same, and to exercise all the rights and privileges hereby granted for 
the use and benefit of the survivor or survivors and the heirs of the 
deceased, in the same proportion as if all had lived till the work had 
been completed. 
Secr. 15. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesame, That 
at any time after the expiration of the periods herein fixed for the com- 
pletion of each grand section in the manner aforesaid, should the legis- 
lature deem the navigation contemplated by the preceding sections of 
this act insufficient, the said Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and 
Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, due notice in writing being given 
them thereof, shall convert the said navigation into a complete slack 
water navigation, and shall erect and complete at least one lock or other 
device overcoming at least six feet falls in each and every year, in such 
part of said respective grand sections as they may think proper, and so 
on until the whole shall be completed; and in such case after each and 
every such lock or other device has been inspected, and the Governor's 
license for each of them has been obtained in the manner prescribed 
herein, it shall be lawful for the said Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto 
and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, to charge and receive 
for the passage up and down through each and every such lock or other 
device, as soon as it shall have been completed and the license for it 
obtained as aforesaid, for their own proper use and benefit, a toll not 
exceeding eight cents per ton per lock or other device of six feet fall or 
lift, and so in proportion for any greater or less fall or lift, and the 
same for every thousand feet board measure of boards, timber, plank 
or scantling in rafts: Provided, That the said Josiah White, George 
F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, shall not re- 
ceive for the distance thus made slack water, the toll granted them by 
the eleventh section of this act. 
Secr. 16. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
if the legislature after due notice given as aforesaid shall direct the said 
navigation to be converted into a slack water navigation, the said 
Josiah White, Georege F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs 
and assigns, shall proceed to carry on the same under all the provisions, 
immunities, privileges, restrictions, penalties, rules and regulations con- 
tained in the first, second, third, fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth, eleventh, 
twelfth and fourteenth sections of this act. 
Sect. 17. 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 said slack 
water navigation in either or both of the grand sections aforesaid, and 
the same shall have been approved by commissioners appointed as here- 
inbefore directed, the said Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and 
Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, shall for such grand section or 
sections so finished as aforesaid, have the privileges and be entitled to 
use all the water from the said river, sluices, canals or other devices to 
propel such machinery as they may think proper to erect on the land 
which they may previously have purchased from the owner or owners, 
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