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CHAP. 112. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
or action shall be brought unless within sixty days after such offence
shall be committed. |
Dividends to be
declared half yearly. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors
shall keep a just and true account of all monies received by their
several and respective collectors of tolls for crossing the said
bridge, and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and
income thereof among all the stockholders, first deducting therefrom
all contingent costs and charges, and such proportions of the
said income as they may deem necessary to provide against the decay,
and for repairing the said bridge, and shall, on every first
Monday in June and January in every year, publish the dividend
to be made of the said clear profits thereof among the stockholders,
and of the time and place where and when the same shall be
paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. |
Penalty for destroying
any part
of bridge, &c. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
wilfully, or without the orders of the said president and directors,
pull down, break or destroy, with intent to injure any part or
parts of the said bridge, or of any abutment, pier or piers, or of
any of the toll-houses, grates, bars, or other property of the said
corporation, appertenant to, or erected or made for, the use and
convenience of said bridge, or the persons employed in conducting
the business thereof, or shall wilfully, without the orders and consent
of the said corporation, or any person or persons authorised
by them, obliterate, deface or destroy, the letters, figures or other
characters, in any written or printed list of the rates or tolls
affixed, or to be affixed, in any place or places for the information
of passengers, and others, or who shall wilfully and maliciously
obstruct or impede the passage on or over the said bridge, or any
part or parts thereof, he, she or they, so offending, shall, and each
of them shall, forfeit and pay to the said president, directors and
company, not exceeding the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace in like manner, and subject to the
same rules and regulations, as debts under fifty dollars may be recovered,
and he, she or they, so offending, may and shall remain
liable to actions, at the suit of the said president and directors, for
further damages for such offence, if the said sum or sums herein
mentioned be not sufficient to repair and satisfy such damages. |
Bridge authorised
to be built near
present landing of
Dover Ferry, &c. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said president
and directors
shall deem it more advantageous to erect and establish the
said bridge upon some site near the present landing of Dover ferry
on the said Choptank river than at the said landings, they are
hereby authorised and empowered to contract for, and purchase of
the proprietors, the lands upon which such site may be chosen, and
also so much adjoining land as may be requisite to make a road or
highway from each end of the said bridges into the present public
highway respectively, and the same, when purchased, to hold to
the said company as tenants in common, for ever, in proportion to
their respective shares. |
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Passed Dec. 24. |
CHAP. CXIII.
An Act annulling the Marriage of Margaret Crain, of the City of
Baltimore. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 589. |
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