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An Act to empower Commissioners, therein named, to cut, sink, and keep in repair, Drains, and Water Passages, in Cawcaw Swamp, in Saint Paul's Parish. 1795 22 (1795)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0021 and id is 1 raw text is: 22 AS. (DEC. Penalties And be it firther enacled, That if any perfon thall wilfully deftroy, or onperfonsin- injure, any of the caufeways or bridges, on fich road, or do any other juring the caufeways or injiny to the fame, he, flie, or they, fo olfending, fhall pay to the faid Alex- bridges. ander B. Stark, treble damages, and fuffer fix months imprifonment, after being-convifted thercof. In the Senate Houke, the 12th day ofDecember, in the year of our Lord one thoufandfeven hundred and ninety-five, and in the twentieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. Prejident of the Senate, Speaker ofthe Houfe of Reprefentativer. HEREAS the feveral laws, heretofore paffed, for finking drains raland water paffages in Cawcaw fwamp, have not proved effeftual for the purpofes thereby intended. Be it therefore enaaed by the honorable the Senate and Houfe of Repre- fentatives, now metandfitting in general afembly, and by the authority Commiffli- ofthejfame, That John Wilfon, doftor James Hartley, Jofeph Farr, John oners named Boyle, Doaor Meyler, Thomas Roper, and William Walhington, efquires, &e hall be, and they are hereby appointed, commiflioners for, and they, or a majority of them, or of their fucceffors, are hereby authorifed and em-. powered, within fuch time as they may think moft convenient, to lay out, cut, fink, maintain, and keep in repair, and to agree, or contract, for laying out, cutting, findng, and keeping in repair, either in part, or in the whole, Rich one or more free drains, or canals, and in fhch places, courfes, and diretions, and of fhch length, depth, width, and extent, and in fuch manner, way, and form, as they, or a majority of them, or of their fuc- ceffors, may deem mofi advifable, or advantageous, fb as to carry off the waters, and be navigable from the caufeway, at Drayton's cowpen, on one branch of the faid fwamp, and from the plantation of the honorable gene- ral William Wafhington, called Bull's, on the other branch of the faid fwanp, into Wallace's-creek. And

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