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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 125.
AN ACT to amend an Act, entitled an "Act to incorporate
the Town of Arundel-on-the-Bay, in Anne Arundel County,
Maryland, approved April 9, 1898."

Arundel-on-
the Bay.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section thirty -one of said Act be amended so as
to read as follows:

Power to con-
struct dock s
piers, etc.

Sec. 31. That said Commissioners shall have full power to
construct, or cause to be constructed, such piers, docks, sea
walls, dykes, and other improvements as it may from time to
time deem necessary or convenient for the accommodation of
the public, for amusement or business purposes, or for protec-
tion or preservation of its water front, and to fix such
charges and regulations as said Commissioners may deem
proper for the use and occupation thereof, and to provide for
payment for work done, or to be done, under contract, for the
protection and preservation of the shore or water front on
Chesapeake Bay, within the limits of Arundel-on-the-Bay,,
the said Commissioners may issue the negotiable bonds of
the corporation to an amount not exceeding ten thousand

Issue bonds.

dollars in the aggregate, any of the said bonds having not
less than one nor more than twenty years to run from its,
respective date, to be redeemable at the pleasure of the Com-
missioners at any time upon thirty days' notice of their desire
so to do, published in a newspaper of general circulation in
Annapolis, Maryland. Such bonds shall be executed by the
Mayor and countersigned by the secretary after having been
authorized by the Commissioners by order duly entered of
record, and shall bear not exceeding five per cent, interest
per annum, payable semi-annually, all made payable at the

Disposition of
bonds.

office of the treasurer. They shall be disposed of at not less
than par, and they or their proceeds shall be devoted exclu-
sively to and in payment of said work of protection and
preservation of said water front or shore of Chesapeake
Bay, including piling already done during the year 1897.
The expense of the construction of said works for the
protection and preservation of said shore or water front
on Chesapeake Bay shall be borne by and imposed upon the
blocks within said corporate limits as shown by the plot of
Arundel-on-the-Bay, duly recorded on the records of said
Anne Arundel County, as follows, and in the proportion as
follows, to wit: One-half or fifty per cent, of the cost of
said works of protection and preservation shall be imposed
upon the lots, severally, composing the east half of. blocks.