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MSA SC 5796-3-4
Collection	Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates	1783
Medium	Original
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Chapter 23. Entitled "An ACT for making the river Susquehana navigable from the line of this stat to tide water," this act incorporates a group of individuals who had invested money in improving the Susquehana and gives them condmenation powers, the "full power of erecting grist mills, and other waterworks thereon." The corporation is granted "full power and authority to use the waters of the said river for the purpose of supplying the said canal, and the waterworks aforesaid erected thereon, with water" but "shall have no right to the waters of the said river for any other purpose or purposes whatsoever." Note also that the owners of land through which the canal will be cut have the right to become subscribers to the corporation.

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