EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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who shall have resided in the taxable limits of said village for

and during the space of six months preceding shall elect by

Election of
Village Com-

ballot on the second Monday of April in each and every

missioners.

year, at the usual place of holding elections in said village,

five Commissioners, one of whom shall be designated by the

voters as president, who shall have resided within the taxable

limits of said village one year next preceding the election;

the Commissioners shall enter upon the discharge of their

duties within ten days after their election.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 279.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of County Com-

missioners of Frederick County to enter into an agree-

ment with the proper authorities of Loudon County in the

State of Virginia, in the purchase of the Berlin and Lovetts-

ville Bridge over the Potomac river, and to provide a fund

for the payment thereof as a free bridge for the use and

benefit of the people of the States of Maryland and Virginia.

WHEREAS, In pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly

of Maryland, passed at the January Session in the year of

Berlin and
Lovettsville

1890, Chapter 616, and the Act of the General Assembly of

Bridge Com-

Virginia, passed at the session of 1889-1890, approved Feb-

pany.

ruary 3, 1890, the Berlin and Lovettsville Bridge Company,

a body corporate, duly incorporated by the Acts aforesaid,

and consolidated by the Act of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed at its January, Session in the year 1894, Chapter

324, did construct across and over the Potomac river from

Berlin (now Brunswick) in Frederick County, Maryland, to

a point in Loudon County, in the State of Virginia, a bridge

for the use of vehicles, horses and pedestrians; and

WHEREAS, The said Berlin and Lovettsville Bridge Company

has, in pursuance of the powers and authority given and

Issued capital
stock.

granted by said Acfs of Assembly, issued capital stock of said

corporation to the amount of thirty thousand dollars, and mort-

gage bonds to the amount of thirty-two thousand dollars,

bearing five per cent, interest per annum, which sums of money

were used and expended in the purchase of the necessary rights