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Whereas a navigable canal from the tide water of the river Potomac, in the District of Columbia, to the mouth of Savage creek, on the north branch of said river, and extending thence across the Alleghany mountain, to some convenient point on the navigable waters of the river Ohio, or some one of its tributary streams, to be fed, through its course on the east side of the mountain, by the river Potomac and the streams which empty therein, and on the western side of the mountain, and in passing over the same, by all such streams of water as may be beneficially drawn thereto by feeders, dams, or any other practicable mode, will be a work of great