AN ACT to repeal the act passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter two hundred and fifty-four, entitled "An act to authorize and empower the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel county, to appropriate a sum of money to the capital stock of the Annapolis and North Severn Bridge Company," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the act passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter two hundred and fifty-four, entitled "An act to authorize and empower the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel county, to appropriate a sum of money to the capital stock of the Annapolis and North Severn Bridge Company" be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the following sections enacted in lieu thereof :	Repealed and re-enacted.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the county commissioners of said county, are hereby authorized to cause a good and substantial bridge, for travel of man and beast, to be constructed across Severn River, from the foot of Severn street, or at such point on said river as in the opinion of said commissioners, or a majority of them, may seem most practical and convenient, and most conducive to the interests of the public (or public welfare), and to that end they are hereby authorized to adopt such plans, and to make such contracts, and to do such acts, as may be necessary for the erection, construction and completion of said bridge.	Authorized to build a bridge
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners in causing said bridge to be built, shall have the same provided with a suitable and sufficient draw-bridge over the navigable part of said river, of a width of not less than fifty feet, for the safe and secure passing and repassing of vessels and steamers navigating the same.	Provided with draw-bridge.