The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1845-05-24

sions, shall be asceGtained Immediately
after a Mill shall be erected and put in
operation upon the aforesaid Mill seat
lots or either Of them, and when ascer-
tanned the Gate or Gates may be so regu
lated as to admit no greater quantity, and
by such regulation the result Of actual
experiment. the parties shall lhenceforth
be governed; ithe quantity of water
which was found to be required by the
Mill erected on these lots by the late
James Bosley Esq, which was afterwards
destroyed by fire, was about lao inches
delivered under head Of 3 feet Il inches,
The head and fall, from the surface of the
Canal to the termination of the tail race
at the River, being about "a feet;) also,
in case the aforesaid Canal on the banks
and locks thereof should at any time or
times be destroyed or broken, or in any
manner become impaired, that the Propri-
e!ors of the Susquehanna Canal aforesaid
shall and will from time to time, as often
as need be repair the same with all pos.
sible despatch, and until such repairs can
be made and completed the Proprletors
aforesaid shall and will, if required by
the owner or owners of said lots, cause a
supply Of water, if practicable, to be fur
nished by means OF a temporary dam or
otherwise, if the same can be effected in a
shorter term than would be requisite for
making the permanent repairs; and also
that the owner of said lots may at his
own expense remove the western bank Of
the aforesaid Ca.al opposite to the 3 a.
bove described NJ seat lots, for the pur-
pose of making Docks or proper births
for scows, boats, or for other uses, so
that such banks so removed shall! be made
and kept water tight, and remain of suf>
ficlent breadth, that is TO say, net less
than 20 feet wide in the narrowest part,
if that Width should be required by the
aforesaid Propretors, to afford "a Towing
Path for the said Canal, and for the ac-
commodalion Of persons otherwise pass.
ing and repassing along the said western
bank; and that the Towing oath Of 20 feet
on the west side of the Canal, and that Of
40 feet on the east thereof, are and shall
at all times be considered public high
ways, and shall not a. any time be shut
up or unnecessarily obstrucled; and the
owner Of said lots shall keep up and sup
port one or more good and substantial
bridge or bridges, as the case may require
the whole width from North east to
South west, of the space between the a.
loresaid Canal and the said Mill seat lots |
over the forebay or forebays, sluces or
conduits through which the water may be
conducted from the aforesaid Canal to the |
said Mill seat lois, and that the forebays !
SC, to be erected and fixed for the pur-
pose aforesaid shall be lone in subslan-
tial Sc, manner so as to guard as much |
as practicable against leakage, whereby |
the water from the Canal would be use.
lessly carried off or wasted, and that
wherever any leakage or waste of water
may take place in consequence of any
act or emission to do or to perform any
act or matter stipulated hereby TO be done
and performed by the owner of said Lots,
he shall forthwith remedy or repair the
same, and if he shall omit to do so with
in a reasonable time after notice given 10
him, or his agent, the proprietors alore-
said, or their agent, may repair or remedy
such leakage or waste, and the reasonable
expenses thereof shall be borne and paid
by the said owner of said Lots, and the
owner of said Lots must at all times be
subject TO such regulations relative to the
navigation Of the aforesaid Canal, and the
use OF the Locks thereof, as the propre>
tors of the Susquehanna Canal are by
law authorized to adopt, SO that no such
regulation shall so operate as to impair
or in any manner lessen any right or
herein before mentioned to be
granted by the proprietors Aforesaid
Valuable Quarries of the Susquehanna
Granite, it is believed, are upon the 3
Lots above described as being on the cas-,
side of the Canal
AND ALSO, ALL THAT LOT OF
LAND OR GROUND,