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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1870
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ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 497

National Bank of Frederick City, to an amount
not exceeding, with the capital stock of said Com-
pany, the sum of forty thousand dollars.

Capital stock.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the said Presi-
dent and Directors shall keep a just and true
account of all moneys received for tolls, and shall
make and declare a dividend among all the stock-
holders of any profits which may arise, first de-
ducting all incidental cost and charges, and such
portion of the income as they may deem necessary
to provide against decay and for repairing said
bridge; and shall, on the first of January and

Keep account.

July, of each year, publish a statement of the
dividend so made and the place where the same
will be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid
accordingly.

Publish state-
ment.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That if any person
shall wilfully injure or destroy any part of said
bridge, he shall forfeit and pay to the President
and Directors of said Company for any such offence
the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered before any
Justice of the Peace in Frederick County, and any
person so offending shall be liable to further suit

Injure or

destroy.

by the President and Directors for damages for
such offence, in case the sum mentioned be not suf-
ficient to repair said damages.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That in case of dis-
agreement between the said President and Direc-
tors and the owners of any land or materials neces-
sary for the purposes of this Act, the said President

Damages.

and Directors shall have power to condemn the
same according to the provisions of the Act of As-
sembly passed March the tenth, eighteen hundred
and fifty-four, Chapter two hundred and twenty-
seven.

Condemn.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
Act shall be construed to authorize the use of said
bridge for any railroad tracks.

Not to use for
railroad.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That if the London
and Berlin Bridge Company shall rebuild their
bridge across the Potomac river, commencing the
same within one year from the passage of this Act
and completing the same within two years, then
this Act to be null and void, then in that case the
company hereby created, to wit, the Berlin Bridge
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