500

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and ways, approaches, piers and abutments of said bridge and

the erection of the superstructure thereon, and which said

bonds will fall due in the year 1913 ; and

WHEREAS, The said Berlin and Lovettsville Bridge Com-

Collected tolls.

pany, a body corporate, as aforesaid, further in pursuance of

the powers and authority in said Acts of Assembly given and

granted to it, does charge and collect tolls for the passage

and use of said bridge to enable the said company to pay a div-

idend on the money invested in said bridge and to keep in

repair: and

WHEREAS, In the town of Berlin (now Brunswick) in Fred-

erick County, Maryland, are located a large railroad yard,

transfer shed and other facilities for the transportation and

distribution of goods, grain, lime, flour and other merchandise ;

and

WHEREAS, It is believed that the tolls charged and collected

Tolls an im-
pediment to

for the use of said bridge are an impediment to the growth and

the business

welfare and business interests of both the States of Maryland

interests.

and Virginia, and that the change of said bridge from a toll

bridge to a free bridge would bind in closer union the two

States mentioned and promote the business and commercial in-

terests of both States, and especially of the two counties, Fred-

erick and London, which are connected by said bridge ; there

fore

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

Empowered to

land, That the Board of County Commissioners of Frederick

enter into an
agreement.

County be and it is hereby authorized, empowered and directed

to enter, as soon as practicable, into an agreement with the Coun-

ty Supervisors or other proper authorities of London County, in

the State of Virginia, for the purchase by the twocounties joint-

ly of the said Berlin and Lovettsville bridge, and all the rights,

ways, easements, piers, approaches and abutments, and all ap-

purtenances thereto belonging or appertaining, to the end that

the same may be made a free bridge for the use of the travel-

Free bridge.

ing public, and to be kept and maintained at the joint expense

of the two counties mentioned in equal proportions perpetually.

SEC. 2. And be, it enacted, That the Board of County Com-

County Com-

missioners of Frederick County, aforesaid, be and it is hereby

missioners to
buy one-half

empowered and authorized, when it deems it advisable to do so,

of the capital

as soon as the proper arrangement can be made with the

stock.

County Supervisors or other proper authorities of Loudon

County, in the State of Virginia, to purchase, at not exceeding

the par value thereof, the one-half of the capital stock of