JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 375

CHAPTER 236.

AN ACT to repeal the act passed at the January
session, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chap-
ter two hundred and fifty-four, entitled "An act
to authorize and empower the County Commis-
sioners of Anne Arundel county, to appropriate a
sum of money to the capital stock of the Annapo-
lis 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 hun- dred 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Severn Bridge Company" be, and the same is hereby re- pealed, and the following sections enacted in lieu thereof :	Repealed and re-enacted.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the county commis- sioners 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 commis- sioners, or a majority of them, may seem most prac- tical 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, construc- tion and completion of said bridge.	Authorized to build a bridge
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commis- sioners 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.