| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
to receive any money levied in virtue of this act, they shall enter
into bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of double the
sum to be levied for their use in the respective counties in Prince-George's
and Anne-Arundel, for the faithful discharge of their duties
as commissioners for building the bridge to which they are appointed,
which said bonds shall be lodged with the clerks of the
county courts of Prince-George's and Anne-Arundel counties respectively,
and may be sued as any public bonds now are, and a certified
copy of said bonds, under the seal of either of the county
clerks aforesaid, shall be evidence in any court of law or equity in
this state. |
1817.
CHAP. 162. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the following persons
are appointed
commissioners for building said bridges, to wit: For building the
bridge at Queen-Anne, Joseph W. Clagett and Samuel Tyler, of
Prince-George's county, and Joseph N. Stockett and James Sanders,
of Anne-Arundel county; for building the bridge at the Ford called
the Governor's Bridge, Dennis Boyd and George Tyler, of Prince-George's
county, and James Iglehart and Thomas Hodges, of
Anne-Arundel county; and for building the bridge at the Priest's
Ford, Benjamin Ogle and William Bowie, of Prince George's
county, and Thomas W. Hall and John Duvall, (of Marsh,) of
Anne-Arundel county, and the said commissioners, or a majority
of those appointed for the purpose of building each of said bridges,
are authorised and empowered, as soon as may be convenient, to
cause the said bridges to be built of sound and good materials, and
completed in the best and most substantial manner, and they, or a
majority of them, are by this act fully authorised and empowered,
to agree with a contractor or contractors for each of said bridges,
or they may purchase materials, and hire workmen and labourers
to complete the same, as they in their discretion may think best, and
in either case the said bridge or bridges shall be built and completed
under the immediate direction and superintendance of the said commissioners,
or a majority of them. |
Commissioners appointed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if either of said
commissioners
shall die, or remove out of the county in which he is a commissioner,
before the completion of the bridge for the purpose of building
which he is appointed a commissioner, or shall refuse to act, the
commissioner who shall have been appointed to act with him may
appoint some other person resident of the county in which he was
a commissioner to act in his place, and the person so appointed
shall have the same powers and authorities as are vested in the said
commissioners by this act. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
appointed
to each of said bridges, or one of them, shall render to the justices
of the levy courts of the said counties respectively, at their levy
courts next after the expenditure of said monies, a true, full and
fair account of all the money by them laid out and expended by virtue
of this act, in building and completing the said bridges, and
that the said levy courts, in the respective counties, shall make
such compensation to the said commissioners as they in their judgment
shall think proper. |
To render to levy
courts account of
monies expended. |
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