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Saturday, Auguji 14, 1803.
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Seventh Congress of the United
States .
At the First Srflion, begun and held at
the City of Walhington, ‘in the Ter.
vitory of Columbia, on Monday the
seventh of December, one thousand
eight hundred and one,
AN ACT to abol-Jh the Board of Com
mijjhners in the City of Wajhington ;
and for other purpnfes,
BE it enabled by the Senate and House
of Reprefentatiojes of the United
States of America, in Congress ajfembled ,
Tint from and after the firrt day of June
text, the offices of the commiffioaers ap
winted in virtue of an ad parted on the
ixtecnrh day of July in the year feven
:een hundred and ninety, entitled, “ An
id to establish the temporary and perma
lent feat of the government of the Unit
'd States,” (hall cease and determine ;
md the said commissioners (hall deliver up
into such peribn as the preftdent (hall ap
>oinr, in virtue of this ad, all plans,
Iraughts, books, records, accounts, deeds,
jrants, contrads, bonds, obligations, le.
luritios, and other evidences of debt in
heir pofleffion which relate to the city of
Walhington, and the affairs heretofore
mder their fuperintendance or care.
Sec. 2. And be it further enaded t
That the affairs of the city of Waihing
:on, which have heretofore been under
he care and fuperintendance of the fa id
:ommi(fioners, (hall hereafter be under
:he diredion of a fuperintendant, to be
ippointed by, and to be under the con
troul of the Preftdent of the United
States; and the said fuperintendant js
hereby inverted with all powers, and (hall
hereafter perform all duties, which the
said commidioners are now verted with,
or are required to perform by, or in vir
tue of any ad of Congress, or any ad of
the general afiembly of Maryland, or
any deed or deeds of trust from the origi.
nal proprietors of the lots in the said city,
■Or in any other manner whatsoever.
Sec. 3. And be it further enaded ,
That the said commidioners (half forth
with fettle with the accounting officers
Os the treasury their accounts for all mo.
nies received and expended by them in
their capacity, as commiffioncrs, and (hall
immediately thereafter pay to the said
fuperintendant any balance which may be
•found against them upon such fectlement.
Sec, 4. And be it further enaded ,
’That the said fuperintendant fliall pay
41l the debts heretofore contraded by the
Qommiffioners in their capacity as such,
the payment of which are not herein after
specially provided for, out of any monies
received by him aridng out ot the city
hirJ s .
Sec. And be it further enaded 1,
That the said fuperintendant (hall, under
the diredion of the President of the Unit
ed States, fell so many of thofc lots in
the city of VValhington which are pledged
for the re-payment of a loan of two hun
dred thousand dollars, made by the date
°f Maryland, in tlje years one thousand
hundred and ninety-fix and one
thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven,
t? the commidioners for the ufc of the said
Gt y» as may be fufficient to pay the inte-
Tf ft already accrued on the said loan, and
the interest and inrtalments thereof, as
% may refpeftivcly become due : Fro* -
1 Y It
V-.
<vtdeJ y That if in the opinion of the Pre
sident of the United States, the sale of a
fufficieot number of the (aid lots, to meet
the objefts aforefaid, cannot be made
without an unwarrantable facrifice of the
property, then so much monev as may be
neceSTary to provide for the deficiency is
hereb} appropriated and Shall be paid out
of any money in the treasury of the U
nited States not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 6. And be it further entitled,
That the said fuperintendant Shall, prior
to the firll day of November next, lell
under the direftions of the President of
the United States, all the lots in the said
c\ty, which were fold'antecedent to the
Sixth day of May, in the year one thou
sand seven hundred and ninety.fix, and
which the said commiflioners are autho
rifed by law to re-fell, in consequence of
a failure*on the part of the purchafcrs to
comply with their contracts; and the
monies arising thereupon Shall be applied,
on or before the firft day of November
next, to the payment of the futn of fifty
thousand dollars and the interest thereon
to the State of Maryland, which said sum
was formerly loaned by the said Slate to
the commiSfioners for the use of 'the city
of Washington ; Provided, That if a fuf.
ficient sum to meet the objefts last afore
faid, Shall not be produced by the sale of
the whole of the lots aforefaid, then so
much money as may be neceSTary to pro
vide fox the deficiency is hereby appropri
ated, and (hall be paid out of any money
in the treasury of the United States, not
otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 7. And be it further enabled.
That after the debts already contracted
by the commiSfioners Shall have been dis
charged, all monies advanced out of the
treasury in pursuance of this aft. Shall be
reimbursed by the said fuperintendant, by
paying into the treasury all monies arising
from the city funds, until the whole sum
advanced, with the interest thereon. Shall
be repaid.
Sec. 8. And be it further enatied.
That so much of the aCt, entitled, “ An
aft to dlabliSh the temporary and per
manent feat of government of the United
States," paSTed on the sixteenth day of
July, in the year Seventeen hundred and
ninety, as relates to the appointment of
commiSfioners Shall be and the fame is
hereby repealed.
See. 9. And be it further entitled,
That it Shall and may be lawful to open
books in the city of Washington, for re
ceiving and entering fubferiptions for 0-
pening the canal to communicate from the
Potomac river to the EaSlern branch there
of, through a part of the city of Wash
ington, under the management of Tho
mas Tingey, Daniel Carrol of Dudding
ton, Thomas Law, and Daniel Carrol
Brent, which fubferiptions Shall be made
personally, or by power of attorney : the
laid books Shall be opened for receiving
fubferiptions, and continue open until the
sum of eighty thousand dollars Shall be
filled up, in Shares of one hundred dollars
each; and that each person Shall, at the •
time of fubferibing, pay down ten dollars,
being one tenth of each Share; and after
fourteen days previous notice, by adver
tifernent, there Shad be a meeting of the
fubl'cribers, and they are hereby declared
to be incorporated into a company, by the
name of the “ Washington Canal Compa
ny," and may fuc and be sued, as such,
and make all neceSTary by-laws and regu
• lations lor ihe proper management of the
business thereof: And such of the fub
feribers as Shall be present at the said
meeting, or a majority of them, are here
by empowered and required to elect a
- and tour directors for ccndufting
the said undertaking, and managing the
said company's business for, and during
such time not exceeding three years, as
the faidfubfcribers or a majority of them,
Shall think fit. Each member Shall be
allowed one vote for every Share, by him
or her held at the rime, in the said com
. pany, -and any proprietor by a writing
GEORGIA.
under his or her hand, executed in pre
sence of two witnesses, may depute any
other member or proprietor to vote and att
as proxy for him or her, at any general
meeting.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted t
That the (hares in said company (hall be
deemed personal, and not real property,
and transferable in such manner as the
company (hall diredt.
Sec. li. And be ti further enabledy
That the prelident and directors so elected,
and their facceifors, or a majority of them,
(hall have full power and authority to a
• gree with any person or persons, on be
half of the said company, to cut such ca
nals, eredt such locks, and perform such
p other works as they (hall judge necelfary
for opening the canal aforefaid, and the
forks thereof; —and out of the monies
ariling from the fabferiptions, wharfage
and tolls, to pay for the fame, and to
repair and improve the said canal, locks,
and other works necelfary thereto, and to
defray all incidental charges, and also
to appoint a treasurer, clerk, and such
other officers, toll gatherers, managers
and servants, as they (hall judge requifue,
and to fettle their refpedtive wages.
Sec. 12. And be it further enafled.
That the treasurer of the company (hall
give bond, with such penalty, and such
security, as the said president and direc
tors, or a majority of them (ha(l direct.
See. 13. And be it further enacted ,
That the said president and diredtors, so
elected, and their successors, or a majori
ty of them aifembled, (hall have full pow
er and authority to demand and receive
of the proprietors, the remaining nine
tenths of the (hares, from time to time, as
they may be required by previous adver
tisement, at lead one month'in the city
of Waftiington, Georgetown, and Alex
andria gazettes; and if any of the said
proprietors (hall refufe or negledt to pay
their proportions within one month after
the fame so ordered and advertised, as
aforefaid, the said (hares of defaulters
(hall be forfeited.
Sec. 14. And he it further enafiedy
That the said president and directors so
elcCted, and their facceifors, or a majo
rity of them, (hall not begin to colleCt
wharfage or toll, until the canal is made
practicable for boats and scows to pass
through the fame from the Potomac to
the Eastern Branch.
Sec. Ij. And be it further enaftedy
That every president and director, be
fore he aCts as such, (hall take an oath
or affirmation tor the faithful difeharge of
his office. *
Sec, 16. And be it further enacted.
That there (hall be a general meeting of
the proprietors on the firft Monday in
June, and the firft Monday in December,
every year, in the city of Waftiington ;
to which meeting the president and direc
tors (hall make a report, and fender di
ftinCt and just accounts of all their proceed
ings, and on finding them fairly and just
ly dated, the proprietors, then present,
or a majority of them, (hall give a certi
ficate, thereof, and at such half yearly
general meetings, mfter leaving in the
hands of the treasurer such sum as (hall
be judged necelfary for repairs, improve,
meats or contingent charges, an equal
dividend of all the nett profits ariling
from the wharfage and tolls hereby grant
ed, (hall be ordered and made to, and
among all the proprietors of the said
company, in p/oportion to their fcveral
(hares.
Sec, 17, And he it further enaftedy
That for and in con fide rat ion of the ex
pends the said proprietors (hall incur, not
only in cutting canals, but in eredting
locks, and in maintaining and keeping the
fame in repair, and in lemporary enlarge
ment and improvement of the fame, that
for the space of fifty years, when this aCI
(hall cease, on repayment of the princi
pal of the sums expended, the company
is hereby authorifed to collect the fame
rates of wharfage cn all articles and ma-
mSB tVoi. XVI. No. 827.1
tcnals landed on each fide of the canal, as
are now legally received at . tl e wharfs o£
Georgetown; And it lhall and may be
lawful for the fa id prelident and directors,
for fifty years, and as much longer as
their principal Turns expended remain'un
paid, to demand and to receive, at the
"Tiioft convenient place for all commodities
carried through a lock or loiks of the
canal, a toll not exceeding half a dollar
on each loaded boat, and a quarter of a
dollar on each loaded scow; but no toll
to be paid returning. But when the
wharfage lhall produce the annual interest
ot eight per cent, on the sums expended
by the prelident and directors, exclusive
of the tolls, ihen the toils lhall cease, an«T
the canal and forks thereof lhall be entire
ly free for passage; and when the wharf
age lhall exceed the annual interell of
twelve per cent, then the prelident and
directors lhall appropriate one half of the
surplus to Tuch public purpose as congress
may direct, or reserve die fame as a fund
to pay off the principal: Provided always,
That all public property lhall pals free of
toll and wharfage.
Sec. 18. Pro vided nevertheUfs , a.'id
be it further enacted, That in caic the
said Walhington company created by this
aft lhall not, within the term ot five y?jr.s,
complete the said canal in such a manner
as to admit boats drawing three feet of
water, to pass through the whole extent
of said canal, that the said canal lhall re- '
vert to the United States, and all right
and authority hereby granted to said com
pany lhall cease and determine,
NATHANIEL MACON, Speaker
of the lloufe of Representatives,
ABRAHAM BALDWIN, Prefix
dent of the Senate pro tempore .
Approved, May 3, ISO 2.
Tn. JEFFERSON, Prefideni
of the United Stales,
AN ACT additional to , and amendatory
of an ail intituled “an ail concerning
the diH ri il of Columbia ." .
BE it enacted by the Senate and lloufe
of Repnjentatrves of the United
Stales of America in Can? ref AjJembledy
That the circuit court ot the county of
Walhington, in the territory of Columbia, .
(hall have power to proceed in all common,
law and chancery causes which now are,
or hereafter lhall be infiituted before ir,
in which either of the parties relide with
out the said territory, in the fame way
that non-rdidents arc proceeded againll
the general court or in the court of chan*
eery in the ttate of Maryland.
Sec, 2. And he it further enabled y
That the circuit court of the county of
Alexandria, in the
lhall have power to proceed in all cofltoioim
law and chancery causes which now 'nfgpnff
or hereafter (hall be instituted before it,
in which either of the parties are non-re
fidems of the said diltrift of Columbia,
in the fame way, and under the fame
regulations observed by the dillrift-courc
or by the high court of chancery in
Virginia, in proceeding againlt non-reli
denes.
Sec. 3. And be it further ena&td 9
That the courts lor the counties of Alex*
andria and Walhington, lhall hereafter bo
holden at the periods following, to wit 5
For the county ot Alexandria, on the
fourth Monday of June and November,
and for the county ot Walhington, ou
the fourth Monday of July and December,
in each year ; and all procels heretofore is—
sued from the offices of the said courts
and not yet returned, lhall be returnable
to the firlt day of the sessions of the said.
courts, refpeftivdy, and all ca ifes now
depending in the fame (hall Hand adjourn
ed and continued over to the next fellies
of the said courts, as edablilhcd by this
act. And the said courts are hereby in
verted with the fame power of holding
adjourned sessions that arc the
courts of Maryland.
See. 4. And be it further e.iadlid t
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