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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

county and State of Maryland," body corporate;

therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Assembly of Ma-

ryland, That the sanction of the general assem-

Sanction given
to gift.

bly be and the same is hereby given and declared

to the above-mentioned gift of the said Adam L.

Jacobs.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1884,

Chapter 114.

AN ACT to repeal section fifty of article twenty-eight

of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled

" County Commissioners," sub-title " Bridges/' and

to re-enact said section with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section fifty of article twenty-

Repealed and

eight of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled

re-enacted.

" County Commissioners," sub-title " Bridges," be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to

read as follows.

SEC. 50. All bridges shall be built or repaired by

contract, and the county commissioners shall adver-

tise in one or more newspapers, and if there be no

newspapers published in the county or counties, then

by such public notice as they may deem most advis-

able, setting forth the place where said bridge is to be

built or repaired, with full specifications of the plan

Bridges— how

and materials, and that sealed proposals for building

built and to be
repaired.

or repairing said bridge will be received until a day

named in the advertisement; provided, however, that

nothing herein shall apply to the building of bridges,

the cost of which shall not exceed two-hundred dollars,

nor to repairs of existing bridges, where the cost of

said repairs shall not exceed that sum; and in all

cases where such cost of building or repairing shall

not exceed said sum of two-hundred dollars, the man-