assembly, and in co-operation with the central committee, hereinafter provided, suitable memorials to the congress of the United States, and the legislatures of the several states before named [Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia], requesting their concurrence in the incorporation of such a company and their co-operation, if necessary, in the subscription of funds for the completion of the said canal: And whereas, by an act of the general assembly of Virginia, which passed the 22d February, 1823, entitled, ‘an act incorporating the Potomac canal company,’ the assent of that state, so far as the limits of her territory render it necessary, is already given to this object, and for its enlargement to the extent required by the preceding resolution, the said act appears to furnish, with proper amendments, a sufficient basis: Be it, therefore, resolved That it will be expedient to accept the same as a charter for the proposed company, with the following modifications, viz: That in reference to its enlarged purpose, the name be changed to the ‘Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.’” These
