THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 699

CHAPTER 379.
AN ACT to revive and continue in force the Charter of the Nanticoke Bridge Company.
WHEREAS, the Corporation known as the " Nan- ticoke Bridge Company," chartered by the Geper- al Assembly of Maryland, December Session, eighteen hundred and seventeen, Chapter two hundred and twenty-four, and subsequent acts, has become extinct for want of successors ; there- fore,	Preamble.
SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Charter of the Corporation known as the "Nanticoke Bridge Company," and subsequent acts thereto, be, and the same are hereby revived and continued in force, and that George W. Bounds, Andrew J. Crawford, Joseph Bratton and Josephus Taylor, of Wicomico Coun- ty, and Thomas H. Webb, Wm. Spry Sherman, Dr. S. S. Ewell, R. F. Thompson and A. S. Per- cy, and their successors, be and they are hereby made and declared to be successors to the corpor- ators named in Section one of Chapter two hundred and twenty-four of December Session, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and have full power to act under the said charter aforesaid and amendments	Revived.
thereto, the same as if they were the original cor- porators, and shall have full power to rebuild said bridge or dispose of the property of the said cor- poration by sale or otherwise ; provided the said corporators aforesaid, in case of the disposal of said property as aforesaid, pay to the Treasurer of the State of Maryland, its proportion of the proceeds arising from said disposal of said property.	Power to act.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts, inconsistent with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.	Repealed.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.	In force.