EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1073

CHAPTER 615.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners

of Anne Arundel County to locate and build a new bridge

and repair the county bridge over Severn river known as the

"Severn Bridge," and to provide, by the issuance of bonds,

the means for making said repairs.

SECTION' i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County

Authority to

be and they are hereby authorized and directed and required,

bridge.

immediately after the passage of this Act, to cause the county

bridge over the Severn river to be repaired so as to make it

safe and in good condition for public travel for man and beast.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That within five days after pas-

sage of this Act the said County Commissioners shall have a

competent bridge engineer to thoroughly examine said bridge

Bridge en-

and make plans and specifications for the repairs to be made

gineer to ex-
amine defec-

to said bridge; and in employing said bridge engineer said

tive bridge.

County Commissioners shall, in advance of his employment,

make a contract with him for the amount to be paid him for

examining said bridge, drawing and making plans and specifi-

cations for its repair, and also for supervising the work until

the work is completed and the bridge ready for public travel.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said bridge shall be

so repaired as to replace all worm-eaten piles that are unsafe

Requirements

and all rotten piles, and that all decayed wood in the upper

of bridge
engineer.

structure of said bridge shall also be replaced by good sound

wood, and if the engineer shall deem the same practicable a

new floor shall be laid over the old floor now on said bridge;

if he shall not deem this practicable, then the old floor shall

be entirely removed from said bridge and the new one laid

immediately on the runners or stringers, and in either event

the new floor shall be laid on boards of even thickness, and said

boards shall be laid diagonally so as to render the same smooth

and easy to travel for man and beast.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said County Commis-

sioners, after having said plans and specifications for the re-

To advertise

pair of said bridge prepared, before contracting for the repair

for proposals
for rebuilding

of the same, shall advertise daily for proposals for the rebuild-

bridge.

ing of said bridge for ten days in some daily newspaper pub-

lished in Baltimore City, and also in the Anne Arundel County

newspaper doing the county publishing for the same length

of time, said proposals to be delivered, sealed, to the County