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249 [1823 February 7.] [Protest] be enabled by regulating the quantity of tickets in market and by protracting the drawings to speculate on the cupidity of the improvident and ignorant part of the community. The Bill does not reserve to the Legislature any control over the toll and receipts of the Corporation, nor is there anything in the act incorporating the proprietors of the Canal (except the power, after twenty years of further regulating the toll) by which any power is reserved to the Legislature, in any way to interfere with the Corporation; and we believe that if the State do so largely