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MSA SC 5796-3-5
Collection	Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates	1784
Medium	Original
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
Description
Chapter 15. Entitled "An ACT to prevent the obstruction of navigation of the eastern and north-west branches of the river Patowmack." Concern is which the "great numbers of wears and hedges . . . erected in and upon the eastern and north-west branches of Patowmack river, near the town of Bladensburg, to the great injury of the navigation of the said river and of the trade of the said town." Declares them nuisances.

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