...that no toll should be demanded, except in a particular case, before the said river should be rendered capable of being navigated in dry seasons by vessels drawing one foot of water at the from the highest place praticable to the Great Falls: And whereas it hath been represented to...

...that no toll should be demanded, except in a particular case, before the said river should be rendered capable of being navigated in dry seasons by vessels drawing one foot of water at the from the highest place praticable to the Great Falls; And whereas it hath been represented to...

...granted, and shall be paid on condition only, That the said Po tow mack company shall make the river well capable of being navigated in dry seasons, by vessels drawing one foot water from the place on the North Branch, at which a road shall set oft' to the Cheat river, agreeably...

...January, 1820 ; that the navigation required to be effected, was such as should «' render the river well capable of being navigated, in dry seasons, by vessels drawing one foot water;" that, upon an application by the Potowmac company to the legislature of Virginia, in 1802,...

...Charter, and to prevent their receiving tolls: 1. Because they have failed to make said river well capable of being navigated in dry seasons by vessels drawing one foot water at least, from the highest place practicable to the great falls beginning at Westham. 2. And...

...tolls allowed by the -above recited act, unless the said company shall have made the said river well capable of being navigated in dry seasons by vessels drawing one foot water at least, from the highest place .practicable to the great falls, according to ihre true intent...

...granted and shall be payable on condition only, that the said Potomac Company shall make the river well capable of being navigated in dry seasons, by vessels drawing one foot water, from the place of collection, near the mouth of the South Branch to and through Payne's Falls...

...r J Conditions on 11- The said tolls shall be paid or exacted on condition only that be collected. the said Shenandoah River Company shall make said...any benefit, privilege or advantage under this act. am' nded or re- ^' ^he legislature reserves to itselt the^right to alter, amend or repealed. p ea l...

...also perfectly explicit, where it declares, that "that the Potomac Company shall make t.he river well capable of being navigated in dry seasons, by vessels drawing one foot water," Now a continuous canal would have a tendency, by lessening the quantity of water in the river,...

...are granted, and shall be paid on condition only, that the Potomac Company shall make the river well capable of being navigated in dry seasons by vessels drawing one foot water, from the place on the North Branch at which a road shall set off to the Cheat River, agreeably...