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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Obtain con-
sent.

garden, burial-ground or orchards of any person
without the consent of the owner thereof.

Approved March 27, 1876.

CHAPTER 185.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners
of Worcester County to erect and maintain abridge
over Ayers Creek in said county, and to levy a sum
of money therefor.

Authorized to
erect bridge.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Wor-
cester county, be and they are hereby authorized and
empowered to erect and maintain a bridge, suitable
for the passage of teams with wagons, over the waters
of Ayers Creek in the third election district in said
county, on the route of a road proposed to be made
from Berlin across said creek to South Point, and
also to levy upon the taxable basis of said county a
sum of money sufficient for that purpose, and for any
damage that may be determined to be due to any

Proviso.

person by the erection and maintenance of said
bridge; provided that if the commissioners aforesaid
in their discretion, shall cause said bridge to be
erected they shall make and keep up said bridge at
least four feet above the water of said creek at ordi-
nary high, tide, for one-third of the length of said
bridge, and shall also prepare and keep a landing,
not less than one hundred feet square on the north-
west side of said creek, below and adjacent to said
bridge; and also provided that nothing in this act

Be construed.

shall be construed to take away any right of action
for damage done real estate bordering on said creek
by reason of the erection and maintenance of said
bridge; but no person shall recover any damage
therefor, unless action for the same shall be instituted
within ninety days from the completion of said bridge.

Approved March 27, 1876.