PENNSYLVANIA, SS. 
In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania. 
JOSEPH RITNER, 
GOVERNOR OF THE SAID COMMONWEALTH 
SEAL OF THE 
STATE OF 
PENNSYLVANIA 
To all to whom these presents shall come, sends greeting: 
Whereas, pursuant to the eleventh and fifteenth sections of 
an act of the General Assembly, passed the 20th day of 
March 1818, entitled, ““An Act to improve the navigation 
of the river Lehigh,” Commissioners were appointed by me, 
on the 8th day of September 1837, to view and examine the 
descending navigation, by artificial freshets, on the river 
Lehigh, between Stoddartsville and the mouth of Wright’s 
Creek, and also a number of Locks as part of the slack water 
navigation in the said river, between Mauch Chunk and 
the mouth’s of Wright’s Creek, upon the notification of the 
President and Managers of the Company for making the 
same, that the said descending navigation and locks, as 
aforesaid, are made and perfected agreeably to certain acts 
of assembly referred to in the first section of an act passed 
the 13th day of March, A.D. 1837, entitled, “An Act 
authorizing the construction of a Railroad to connect the 
North Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, at or 
within the borough of Wilkesbarre, with the slack water 
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navigation of the Lehigh,’ which authorize the making the 
same; and whereas, the said Commissioners, Samuel Breck, 
Nathan Beach and Owen Rice, Esquires, have reported to 
me in writing, under their respective hands and seals, and 
under their oaths and affirmations, that they have viewed 
and examined the said descending navigation, and the locks 
specified in their report, and that they are made and per- 
fected in a complete and workmanlike manner, agreeably to 
the true intent and meaning of the acts of assembly on the 
subject: Now know ye, That in pursuance of the directions 
and authority in the said acts of the general assembly con- 
tained, I, the said Joseph Ritner, governor of the said 
commonwealth, do hereby permit, license, and suffer the 
said President Managers and Company to fix and appoint 
so many places on the aforesaid descending navigation and 
the locks, as aforesaid, forming part of the slack water navi- 
gation before referred to, as will be necessary and sufficient 
to collect the tolls and duties granted by Law to the said 
Company, from all persons having charge of all boats, arks, 
vessels, crafts and rafts, passing up and down the same. 
Given under my hand and the great seal of the state at 
Harrisburg, this 2nd day of November, in the year of our 
Lord 1837, and of the Commonwealth the sixty-second. 
By THE GOVERNOR. 
J. WALLACE, Deputy Secretary 
1968 O—278-632 
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