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King, tljea, all right, title, and interest, of the said company in the said 
western section, shall cease and diitermiiie, and the several states 
aforesaid shall have full autiiorily to incorporate anotlier company 
for the comjjlelion of such section, or to comph-tc the same in any 
other mode that they may deem expedient. And if. after the comple- 
tion of the said canal and locks, the President and Directors shall 
fail to keej) the same in repair for twelve months at any time, tlien, iu 
like manner, the interest of the company in the navigation and tolls 
shall cease, and their charter sliall he forfeited. 
Skc. 21. dnd be it further enadsd Tliat the right to the waters of 
the river Potomac, for the p'.irpnse of aiiy lateral canal or canals. 
Which the state of Virginia or Maryland may authorize to be made, 
in connexion with the said canal, is reserved to the said states re- 
spectively; that a similar right is reserved to the state of Pennsylva- 
nia in relation to the rivers and streams within the territory of that 
state, the waters of whici» may be used in supplying the western 
section of the said canal; that the Government of the United States 
shall retain the power to extend tiie said canal in or through the 
District of Columbia, on eitiier or both sides of the river Potomac; 
Frovided, that, before this act shall take elfect, the Congress of the 
United States shall authorize the states of Virginia and Maryland, 
or either of them, to take and continue a canal from an^ point of the 
above named canal, or the termination thereof, through the territory 
of the District of Columbia, or any j)ai't tliereof to the territory of 
the said states, or eitlier of tiiem, in any direction they may deemi 
proper, upon the same terms and conditions, and with all the rights 
and privileges and ])owers of every kind wiiatsoever, that the com- 
pany incorporated by this act. have to make the Chesapeake and 
Ohio canal, ^iiid provided also, lljat, in taking or extending such 
lateral canal or canals through the District of Columbia, by either 
of the said states, no impediment or injury be done to the navigation 
of the said Chesapeake and Ohio canal. 
Sec. 22. And be it further enacted. That this act, or so much thereof 
as respects the canal and vvoi-ks to bedesigned to be constructed in the 
District of Columbia and the states of Virginia and Maryland, shall 
take effect, witii such necessary modificati(Mi in the construction 
thereof as shall fit it for surh limited application or use, upon the as- 
sent of the Congress of the United States, and tlie legislature of 
Maryland being given thei-eto, and upon its receiving the further as- 
sent of the legislature of Pennsylvania, the whole and every section 
and part thejeof, shall be valid and in full force atid operation. 
Siic. 23. Be it further enacted, That the assent of the Congress 
of the United States, reijuired by the first section of this act, and the 
authority conferred by the fdurteentli section, is understood and 
taken to relate only to their authority as the legislature of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. 
Sec. 24. lie it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts 
coming within the purview of this act, shall b:?, and tiie same arc here- 
by repealed. 
