Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Railways and Canals
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Category : Delaware and Chesapeake canal
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Category : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.)
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Railways and Canals
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Category : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.)
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Considers (60) H.R. 20775.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Railways and Canals
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Category : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.)
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Considers (60) H.R. 20775.

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Excerpt from Hearings Before the Committee on Railways and Canals on the Bill, H. R. 20775: To Acquire and Enlarge the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal A Bill To provide for the acquisition and improvement of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, full and complete title to the inland waterway known as the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal: Provided, That if the works, franchises, properties, claims, and holdings of every kind of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company in and to the said waterway can be acquired by voluntary agreement with the said company for a sum not exceeding two million five hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to purchase the same, and the said sum is hereby appropriated therefor out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided further, That if the said works, franchises, properties, claims, and holdings can not be acquired by voluntary agreement with the said company the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to institute and carry to completion proceedings for the condemnation thereof. And the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the necessary cost of such proceedings; and upon final judgment being entered therein the Secretary of War, if in his opinion the judgment is reasonable, is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the amount necessary to pay said judgment, which amount is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. That in the event of the purchase or condemnation of the said canal, as provided in section one of this act, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to maintain and operate said canal as a free and open waterway of the United, States, and for the purpose of carrying out the provision of this section the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for said operation and maintenance of said canal until the provisions of section three of this act are carried into effect. Sec. 3. That when the said canal and appurtenances shall have been acquired by the United States as herein before provided, the Secretary of War shall take charge thereof and proceed to the construction over the route of said waterway a tide-level ship canal with a depth of not less than thirty feet, in accordance with the plan and project formulated by the Commission appointed by the President in pursuance of joint resolution of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, and set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and fifteen, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session; and any additional land or other property that may be needed for, or in connection with, the construction and operation of said canal shall be acquired by the Secretary of War in the manner prescribed in section one of this act for the acquisition of the property and franchises of the said Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company: Provided, That for beginning the construction of the said canal, including the acquisition of additional land or other property as aforesaid, the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the completion of the work, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by Congress, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of sixteen million three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, exclusive of the amounts herein appropriated.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Railways and Canals
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Category : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.)
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Railways and Canals
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Category : Canals
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Author: Harold Ordell Thomen
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