Private Law 31–LXII

That the assent of the United States be, and the same is hereby, given to the act of the general assembly of Maryland, passed at its December session, eighteen hundred and forty-four, chapter two hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An Act to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,’ passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and ninety-seven,” and to each and every provision thereof; and that the same be, and are hereby, extended to so much of the said canal as lies within the District of Columbia, in as full and effectual a manner as if the several provisions aforesaid were hereby formally enacted.