Annual meetings to be

any such individual, in like manner as other personal property may be.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That held of the there shall be a general meeting of the stockStockholders. holders on the first Monday in June, and the first Monday in December, in every year, in the city of Washington, to which meeting the President and Directors shall make a report, and render distinct and just accounts of all their proceedings; and on finding them justly and fairly stated, the stockholders then present, or a majority of them, shall give a certificate thereof; and at such half yearly general meetings, after leaving in the hands of the Treasurer such sum as shall be judged necessary for repairs, improvements or contingent charges, an equal dividend of all the nett profits arising from the wharfage and tolls hereby granted, shall be ordered, and made to and among all the stockholders of the said company, in proportion to their several shares: Provided, That if the nett profits shall, in any year, exceed fifteen per centum on the sum actually expended by the said company, in opening the said canal, and completing the same, the fifteen per centum only of the nett profits shall be divided among the stockholders, and the excess shall be paid to the mayor and city council of the city of Washington, for the use of the said city.

Dividends to be made.

Proviso.

Tolls.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That for and in consideration of the expenses, the said stockholders shall incur in cutting the canal, erecting locks, and in maintaining and keeping the same in repair, and in the enlargement and improvement of the same, the said company is hereby authorised to collect

on all articles and materials landed on each
side of the canal, from on board any boat or
scow, or placed on either side of the said ca-
nal, for the purpose of being taken therefrom
by any boat or scow, according to such rates
as the President and Directors may, from
time to time, by their bye laws, order and
direct: Provided, That the said rates shall,
at no time hereafter, and in no particular, Proviso.
exceed the rates which are, or may be esta-
blished by the owners of wharves in the city
of Washington. And it shall and may be
lawful for the said company to demand and
receive, at the most convenient place, for all
articles carried through the said canal, tolls
not exceeding the following rates, that is to
say for each unloaded boat or scow twen-
ty-five cents; for each barrel of flour two
cents; for each barrel of beef or pork two
cents; for each barrel of whiskey or brandy
three cents; for each hogshead or pipe six
cents; and upon all other articles, packages
and commodities, one sixth part of the
amount of tolls allowed by law to be receiv-
ed by the Potomac Company, at the Great
Falls of the river Potomac. And the said
company shall also have the exclusive right
to establish a packet boat or boats upon the
said canal for carrying passengers, and no
other packet boat or boats, but such as are
established or permitted by them, shall be al-
lowed to carry passengers through the same
for hire.

property free of

SEC. 13. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all public property shall Public pass through the said canal free of toll, and toll. also, that in case the said canal and one of

the time when

the canal

the forks thereof, shall not be completed Limitation of within the term of seven years from the passage of this act, in such manner as to admit shall be fi boats and scows drawing three feet water to pass through the same, that the said canal shall revert to the United States, and all right and authority hereby granted to the said company shall cease and determine.

nished

Bridges may be erected

over the canal.

Proviso.

Annual state

expenditures

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall, from time to time, whenever and wherever the mayor and city council shall order and direct, suffer bridges to be erected across the canal, and shall suffer the same when erected to be repaired : Provided, That every bridge so erected, shall be at least six feet above high water mark.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That the President and Directors of said company, ment of the after the said canal shall be opened and made receipt and passable for boats and scows drawing three to be laid be. feet water, shall annually, in the month of January, lay before the Congress of the United States, a just and true account of their re ceipts and expenditures, with a statement of the clear profits thereof.

fore Con

gress.

J. B. VARNUM,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JN: MILLEDGE,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

February 16, 1809.

APPROVED,

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER LXXXV.

An ACT making appropriations for the sup, port of government during the year one thousand eight hundred and nine.

BE

E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list in the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationery for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expense of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims; the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:

For compensation granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Repre. Specific ep. propriations. sentatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half cor tinuance, two hundred and one thousand, four hundred and twenty-five dollars :

For the expense of fire-wood, stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, twenty-eight thousand dollars:

For all contingent expenses of the library of Congress, and for the librarian's allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and nine, eight hundred dollars:

Specific ap- For compensation to the President and propriations. Vice-President of the United States, thirty

thousand dollars:

For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and persons employed in that department, including the sum of one thousand dollars for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first day of April one thousand eight hundred and six, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars :

For the incidental and contingent expenses of the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars:

For printing and distributing the laws of the second session of the tenth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:

For special messengers charged with dispatches, two thousand dollars:

For compensation to the secretary of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand dollars, for clerk hire, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the twenty-first April, one thousand eight hundred and six, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars :

For the expense of translating foreign languages, allowance to the person employed in transmitting passports and sea-letters, and for stationery and printing in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars:

For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the