Camden & Gates County, NC - Great Dismal Swamp - Act For Canal, 1827 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An Act to revive and continue to force certain acts of Assembly therein named Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That an act of Assembly, passed in the year 1804, entitled "an act to authorise Benjamin Jones, Thomas Harvey, Enoch Sawyer, and Frederick Sawyer, to cut a navigable canal, and make a road thereon, through the Great Dismal Swamp, from Dismal Swamp Canal, near the head of the woods in Camden county, to the White Oak Spring Marsh in Gates County, and to demand and receive toll thereon," (except so much of said act requires a road to be made on the side of said canal;) also an act of the General Assembly, passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, entitled "an act to amend an act, passed at Raleigh in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled 'an act to authorise Benjamin Jones, Thomas Harvey, Enoch Sawyer and Frederick Sawyer, to cut a navigable canal, and make a road thereon, through the Great Dismal Swamp, from the Dismal Swamp Canal, near the head of the woods in Camden county, to the White Oak Marsh in Gates county, and to demand and receive roll thereon,'": be, and the same is hereby revived and in force for the period of ten years from and after the passage of this act, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as though the same had never ceased and determined by the limitation therein named; and that all the privileges and corporate rights conferred on the persons therein named, be, and they are hereby declared to be revived and vested in Samuel Proctor, Willie M'Pherson, in his own right and as a guardian of the heirs of Hollaway Old, in proportion to the interest which they respectively acquired under said acts: Provided nevertheless, that the said proprietors shall not proceed to collect tolls authorised to be received and collected by said acts until the said Canal shall be completed in the manner therein prescribed. And be it further enacted, That the said proprietors may erect one or more locks on said canal: Provided, they should deem it necessary towards effectuating the object contemplated by the cutting of said canal: Provided further, that if the said corporation shall fail to complete the said canal and road within four years from and after the passage of this act, this act shall be void and of not effect. Source: Public and Private Laws of North Carolina 1827 Chapter XCVII Page 70-71 ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts – gpotts1@nc.rr.com ______________________________________________________________________