Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-04-04
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MARTINSBURG. April a, 1888.


conditions proposed by the Internal Inn
provement Committee of the House OF
Delegates of Maryland, to the extern
sion of the period FOR the completion of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. We
allude TO the conditions expressedln the
resolutions which accompanied the re-
port of that Committee, through It's
chairman. Mr.. Merrick. We consi-
dered the report and resolutions, in a
high degree, derogatory to the charac-
{hbaf6 State, and observed with re-
gret, the Communications passed upon
them by the Baltimore Editors. We
have since understood that the report
and resolutions as agreed to by the
majority of the committee, utterly de-
void as they were of justice or gene
rosity, bore no comparison to the orr
ginal draft presented to the committee
by their chairman. Truly it was u
happy thing for his reputation, that ii
never saw the light. 1t was under
stood that when the committee repor-
ted, a decided majority of both houses
were in favor Of the measures proposed;
but the Indignation which was express
ed in every section of the country
where the Rail Road mania had not
destroyed every thing like a spirit OF
justice or charity, brought the Mary
land Assembly to something like cool
reason, and the conditions of compro-
mise as adopted by that body, which
now await the sanction of the rival
companies are moderate in their tone,
and will probably meet with the ap-
prevail of both.
We shall be glad to sec the unpIeas-
ant controversy in which these compa-
MES have been involved, settled upon Il
basis satisfactory to both. 1t is with
an i'll grace that a favor by, or on be.
half of the Rail Road Company could
be asked of its rival; nevertheless we
hope to see good returned for evil, and
If the proposed compromise will not be
found to affect materially the interests
OF the Canal, we predict the settlement
OF the vexatious dispute.
AN ACT toprovide for the continuation of the
baltimore and Ohio Rail Road to Harpers
Ferry, and for other purposes
Sec is' BE ii enacted by The General
assembly Of JHaryiand That the Balti
more and Ohio RalI Road Company be
and Is hereby authorized to subscribe for
twenty hve hundred shares of the stock of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
ana To pay, whenever the Baltimore and
Ono Ran Road shall be completed TO Har
pers Ferry, upon the terms hereinafter
stipulated, such proportion of said stock as
shall be proportlonally equal to the a
mount which shall at that time have been
paid on The stock held by the State in the
saiu canal Company, the balance of the
STOCK SO subscribed by the said Rail Road
company to be paid as The capital stock
generally Of the said Canal Company.
shall be called in and paid.
Sec. 2nd find be IL firth,r enacted
Ihat whenever the Baltimore and Ohio
nan hoad shall be completed upon the
terms hereinafter stipulated TO Harper'sI
TerIy, the assent of this state be and is
hcreoy gwen to an act of the General As
sembl OF the State of Virginia, entitled
an Act further TO amend an act incorpo
tauhg the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
company" which passed February the
'.h 1917, and an other Act of the same
otate entited an Act to amend the charter
Vi the chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
pdhy' by authorizing the commencement
ol Tue western section of the Canal, which
passed February the 18th, 1880 Proyid.
gu 'na' IN The exercise Of the powers con
ierreo upon the Chesapeake and Ohio
Iahai Company by the first of those Acts
Vi sellihg or otherwise dlsposing Of surplus
water an absolute sale shall in all cases
De made OF snch surplus water by convey
ahce IN whiting. And Provided also, that
'he SAID Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
pshy shall not at any time, or AT any
pace De authorized TO sell or dispose of
surplus water, where such sale, by dmin-
lsshlng the quantity of water in the bed of
The river, shall injure the water rights of
any individual whatever; and no part of
The said surplus water authorized to be
disposed of by the said Act shall be appli
ca any where, within this State, to the
manufactures of any species or descrip-
u9h OF grain; and provided also that the
IONS charged on the said Canal for the
transportation Of flour, meal, or other man
eiactufed grain, shall be the same, weight
,or weight, with the tolls charged for the
transportation Of the manufactured
grain. eo