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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said James W. Legore, his heirs or assigns in the course of the

construction of a bridge or bridges to be erected or in the

course of erection at or near said point, shall have expended

the sum of ten thousand dollars, it shall not be lawful for any

corporation to build or lease, directly or indirectly, a bridge

or bridges across or over said Monocacy river at any point

Unlawful to

within one and one-half miles from the aforesaid point, save

levy tax

and except as hereinafter provided, nor shall it be lawful for

any tax to be levied for the building or acquiring of any bridge

or bridges within the above mentioned limits except as herein-

after provided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

Empowered to

of Frederick County be and they are hereby authorized and em-

purchase a

powered to purchase or lease the stone arch bridge now in

bridge.

course of construction across the Monocacy river in said Fred-

erick County at or near the Iron Stone Ridge at a point com-

monly known as Stump's Hill, when the same shall be com-

pleted, and the road beds leading thereto, for the use of said

county, as fully and to the same extent as other county bridges

and public roads are now held and owned by said county,

when the said County Commissioners shall be requested in

writing by at least one hundred taxpayers residing in Em-

mitsburg, Creagerstown and Woodsboro Election Districts in .

said county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if the said County Com-

To acquire by

missioners shall determine to purchase said bridge and the

condemna-
tion.

roadbeds leading thereto, and are unable to contract for the

purchase of the same from the owner or owners thereof, then,

and in that event it shall be lawful for the said County Com-

missioners of said county to condemn and acquire the same

for the use of said county for the purposes to which other

county roads and bridges are held and used in said county;

and the condemnation proceedings shall be exercised in the

same manner and to the same extent by the said County Com-

missioners as condemnation proceedings are now authorized

and in the manner provided by the Code of Public General

Laws of Maryland, Article 23, Sections 167, 167A and 169, in-

clusive, as far as the same may be necessary to carry out the

intention of this Act; and the jurors selected in said condemna-

Jurors for

tion proceedings shall be impartial and unbiased freeholders

same.

of said Frederick County.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

of said county be and they are hereby authorized and em-