Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-02-26

to third reading.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr.. BRADLEY, with the leave of the
House, presented petition from the
Delegates Of about 70 or 80 towns bor-
dering on the Connecticut river, on the
subject of improving the navigation of
that river; which was referred to the
Committee on Roads and Canals, and
ordered to be printed.
MIR. A. SMyTH offered the following
resolution:
Resohed, That the Clerk of the House OF
Representatives be authorized and directed to
purchase, for the use of the said House, three
hundred copies of the Journals of Congress
from the 5th of September, IVA, to the 1st
of November, 1888, recently published by
Way & Gideon. Provided, the price shall not
exceed two dollars and twenty-five cents per
volume, full bound and lettered.
The resolution was adopted.
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
MIR. MERCER moved to discharge the
Committee OF the whole from the fur
Their consideration of the bill confirm
ing an act of the Legislature of Mary
land to confirm an act of Virginia, in
cooperating the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, in order to take it up
in the House; and the motion being
agreed to
The amendment moved by Mr..
M'KIM, on former day, was then read
and agreed to. --''
The bill was then ordered to be en-
crossed, and read a third time to-mor-
row. 1t is as follows:
A BILL confirming an act Of the General is
sembly of Maryland, to confirm an act of
Virginia, incorporating the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company.
ind be ii hereby enacted, &c. That the
act of the Legislature of Virginia, en-
titled Gan act Incorporating the Che
sapeake and Ohio Canal Company"
be, and the same is hereby, ratified and
confirmed, as far as may be necessary
for the purpose of enabling any COM
pany that may hereafter be formed by
authority of the said act of incorpora-
ton, to carry into effect the provisions
thereof, in the District of Columbia,
within the exclusive jurisdiction of the
United States, and no further.
Sec. 2. find be it further enacted, That
should the state of Virginia, or Mary
land, desire, at any time, to avail itself
Of the right secured to it by the twen-
ty-frst section of the act aforesaid, to
take and continue a canal from any
point of the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal, to any other point, within the ter
ritory of the District of Columbia, or
through the same, on application to
the President of the United States, by
the Executive of the state, the Presi-
dent is authorized and empowered to
depute three skilful commissioners of
the United States Corps of Engineers
to survey and examine so much of the
route of such canal as may affect in any
manner the navigation of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal. The said COM
missioners, or majority of them, shall
ascertain, as far as practicable, whether
the canal proposed to be constructed by
the state aforesaid, will injure or i'm
pede the navigation of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, and report to
the Presidential the United States the
facts and reasons, on which they may
ground their judgment thereupon
which report shall be submitted to the
Congress of the United States at their
session, next ensuing the date thereof;
for their decision thereon, and if Con.
gress shall be Of opinion that the said
Canal may be cut in the manner pro-
posed as aforesaid, without impeding
or injuring the navigation of the Che
sapeake and Ohio Canal, the same shall
be conclusive.
A bill authorizing the payment Of
interest due to the state of Virginia,
was read a third time and passed.
A bill authorizing the legal repre-
sentatives of the Marquis de Maison
Rouge, and those claiming under him,
to institute suit or suits against the
United States, or for other purposes,
was read a third time and passed.
The House then took up the bill to
establish an additional number of Post
Roads, which occupied it the remain
der of the day.