Size of the locks. 
Duty of master, &c, of a boat on 
arriving. 
Duty of Keeper. 
Penalty. 
Service of process. 
When the legislature may purchase the 
navigation. 
When accounts shall be kept & laid 
before the legislature. 
Duty of legislature. 
Right of resumption by the legislature 
on failure in certain cases. 
or sell in fee simple, lease or rent for one or more years the said water 
to any person or persons to be used in such manner and on such terms 
as they may think proper: Provided, It be so done that it shall not at 
any time impede or interrupt the navigation. 
Secr. 18. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
the locks shall be in the clear at least eighteen feet wide and eighty feet 
long, and it shall be the duty of the master or commander of any boat, 
ark or other vessel navigating the said river when they shall arrive within 
one-fourth of a mile from any lock so erected, upon the penalty of two 
dollars, to blow a trumpet or horn whereupon the keeper of such lock 
shall attend for the purpose of opening the gate or sluice to let the 
said boat, ark or other vessel pass without unnecessary delay and in 
safety; and if any boat, ark or other vessel shall be prevented from 
passing up or down any of said locks or sluices by reason of the lock 
not being raised for more than thirty minutes, the said Josiah White, 
George F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, shall 
on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the proper 
county, forfeit and pay to the person so hindered the sum of one dollar 
for every thirty minutes beyond the said time that he shall be so 
prevented, and in the same proportion for any longer or shorter time; 
and the service of any civil process upon the toll gatherer in the proper 
county and next to the place where the offence shall have been com- 
mitted, shall be held as good and available in law as if served upon the 
said Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs 
and assigns. 
Secr. 19. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
at any time after the expiration of thirty-six years from the date of this 
act, the legislature shall have the privilege of purchasing every right 
and title to the navigation; and the said Josiah White, George F. A. 
Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and assigns, shall after the 
expiration of thirty years keep a regular account of all monies received 
by them for toll, and shall annually before the first day of January, 
under oath or affirmation make report thereof to the legislature, in 
failure whereof it shall be lawful for the legislature to resume the 
privileges hereby granted; and in such case in order to ascertain the 
purchase money, the one sixth of the nett amount of toll received in 
the six years next preceding such purchase shall be considered as equal 
to the interest of said purchase money at six per cent. per annum; and 
in case of such purchase or resumption by reason of forfeiture, the 
legislature shall be bound to fulfil all and every obligation enjoined by 
this act on the said Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and Erskine 
Hazard, their heirs and assigns. 
Secr. 20. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
if the slack water navigation aforesaid shall not be begun by the said 
Josiah White, George F. A. Hauto and Erskine Hazard, their heirs and 
assigns, within one year after notice given as aforesaid, and shall not 
within twenty years thereafter be completed, or if they shall at any 
time hereafter misuse or abuse any of the privileges granted by this 
act, then or in either of these cases the legislature may resume all and 
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