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AN ACT for the subscription Of stock in the


Dismal Swamp Canal Company.


Be il enacted by the Senate and House
of fRehresentatiUes Of the United States Of
.d1nerica in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is
hereby, authorized and directed to subscribe,
in the name and for the use of the United
States, for six hundred shares of the capi-
tai stock of the Dismal Swamp Canal, and
to pay for the same, at such times, and in
such proportions, as may be required bg The
existing rules and regulations OF tie sad
Company.


SEC. 3. .4,,d be il further enacted, by ne
authority aforesaid, That the SecrrtarR st
the Treasury shall vote for the Presidcn.
and Director of said Company, according
to said number of shares, and shall receive
upon said stock, the proportion of tolls and
emoluments which shall, from time to time,
become due to the U. States, on the shares of
stock aforesaid


SEC. 5. .dnd be ii further enacted. That
this act shall not go into effect, until the u
nited States Board of Engineers shall exam
inc said Canal, and make a report, in writ
ing, to the Secretary of War, that, in their
opinion, the plan OH which the canal is to be
executed, will answer, as far as circumstan
ces shall permit, as part of the chain of ca
nails contemplated along the Atlantic Coast,
and that, in their opinion, the sum hereby