Florida Ship Canal Company

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John P. Jones, of Nevada; Benj. F Butler, of Massachusetts; and W. H. Manning, of Ohio

to survey, locate, construct, own, maintain, and operate and enjoy a Ship Canal and Telegraph Line, with all appropriate and necessary appurtenances across the peninsula of the State of
peninsula, terminating with the Gulf of Mexico at any point between Apalachee Bay and Tampa Bay
and harbor, with the right to use and pass over any river, lake or other body of water on the route so selected for said canal, the same to be constructed with or without locks, as the company may determine.

A map of the route was to be filed in the office of the Florida Commissioner of Lands and Immigration within one year of the passage of the act.

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