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Therefore, he it enacted, by the General .Ussemhly of Maryland, That 
the said act of tht-. General Assembly of Virginia, be, and the same 
is herdby accepted, assented to, and confirmed. 
Jlnilbc it further enacted and declared. That, by confirmina; and ac- 
cepting the act of Virginia it is not intended by tlie Legislature of 
Mainland, to deny to the Congress of the United States, the consti- 
tutional power to legisiate on subjects of Roads and Canals. And 
for the purpose of removing all doubt as to the right of the state 
of Maryland, to intersect the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, fop 
the purpose of conducting a lateral canal or canals to Baltimore, or 
elsewhere in the state of Maryland, from that part of the said Chesa- 
peake and Ohio Canal, which shall be within the District of Colum- 
bia — « 
Be it further enacted and declared. That the said act of Virginia, 
has been accepted and confirmed by the Legislature of Maryland, on 
the express condition, that the act of Congress contemplated by the 
twenty-first section of the Virginia act, shall direct and provide some 
safe and practicable mode, whereby such lateral Canal or Canals, 
may be secured to the state of Maryland, and whereby also it may 
be determined whether such lateral canal or canals will injure the 
said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, w ithin the meaning and intention 
of the said twenty-first section of the Virginia act. 
"We hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true copy of the 
original act, as passed both branches of the Legislature at Decera- 
cember Session, eighteen hundred and twenty-four. 
WM. K1L1T, Clk Sen. of Md.. 
JOHN EREWER, Clk. House Del. 
Jinnapolis, Jan. si, 1825. 
