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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
existing laws of this state, are not vested with sufficient powers to
levy in any one year a sum of money sufficient to build a substantial
and permanent bridge at said place; therefore, |
1804.
CHAP. 84. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the levy courts of Kent county and of Queen-Anne's
county are hereby authorised and empowered to assess and levy a
sum, not exceeding five hundred dollars, on the assessable property
in their respective counties, at the time of laying their next
county rates, together with the commission for collecting the same,
which said assessment shall be made, levied, collected and paid, to
the commissioners appointed by this act, or to their order, as soon
as the same shall become payable by law, and in case the collector
shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, the said commissioners shall
have the same remedy for recovering the same as is prescribed by
the act, entitled, An act for the speedy recovery of monies levied
or received by sheriffs and collectors, passed November session,
seventeen hundred and ninety-seven *, provided, that before the
said commissioners shall be entitled to receive any money levied in
virtue of this act, they shall enter into bond to the state of Maryland,
in the penalty of two thousand dollars in the respective counties
of Kent and Queen-Anne's, for the faithful discharge of their
duties as commissioners for building the said bridge, which said
bonds 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. |
Levy authorised.
* Ch. 43. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for Kent county,
Michael Megear,
Lewis Blackiston and James Parker, and for Queen-Anne's county,
Joseph Thompson, Samuel Groome Osborn and Thomas Harris,
shall be and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose
of building the said new bridge; and the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, are authorised and empowered, as soon as
it may be conveniently in their power, to cause the said bridge to
be built over the said river, at or near to the place where it formerly
stood, which said bridge shall be built of sound and good materials,
and completed in the best and most substantial manner; and
the said commissioners, or a majority of them, are, by virtue of
this act, fully authorised and empowered to agree with a contractor
or contractors for the whole, or they may purchase materials, and
hire workmen and labourers, to complete the said bridge, as they
in their discretion may think best, and in either case the said bridge
shall be built and completed under the immediate direction and superintendence
of the said commissioners, or a majority of them. |
Commissioners appointed
for building
bridge. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the said
commissioners
shall die, or remove out of the county of which he is a commissioner,
before the completion of the said bridge, or shall refuse to act,
the commissioners may appoint some other person to act in his
place, and the person so appointed shall have the same powers and
authorities vested in the said commissioners by this act. |
How vacancies
are to be filled. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or some
one or two 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 the said monies, a true, full and fair account, of all
the money by them laid out and expended by virtue of this act in |
Account of money
expended to be
rendered to levy
court. |
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