EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the County Commissioners of Dorchester

To construct a

County be and they are hereby authorized and em-

bridge.

powered in their discretion to contract for the con-

struction of a bridge across the northwest fork of the Nan-

ticoke river in said county at a point called Harrison Ferry,

and the placing of a draw therein, so as to provide better facil-

ities for navigation as well as for the safety and convenience

of the public in passing over said bridge. And for the purpose

of paying for said bridge the said County Commissioners

are hereby authorized to borrow on the cred'it of said county

such sum of money as may be necessary not exceeding in all

the sum of five thousand dollars and to give their bonds or

bills obligatory therefor in sums of not more than one thousand

dollars each, to be signed by the president of the Board of said

Commissioners and to be countersigned by the County Treas-

urer of said county and to have the corporation seal of said

Commissioners affixed thereto bearing interest at a rate not ex-

Interest on

ceeding five per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually on

notes or
bonds.

the first days of January and July, in each and every year,

and to levy upon the assessable property of said county an

additional sum necessary to construct said bridge.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said bonds or bills obliga-

tory shall be redeemable at the pleasure of said County Com-

Maturity

missioners at or before the maturity thereof, and shall be made

thereof.

payable at such time that not more than one thousand dollars

thereof shall mature in any one year.

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

sioners are hereby authorized and empowered to levy annually

Annual levy.

upon the assessable property of Dorchester County a tax suffi-

cient to pay the semi-annual interest on said bonds or bills ob-

ligatory by them issued in pursuance of this Act, and they shall

levy, when necessary, such additional sum or sums as may be

required to pay the principal, of said bonds or bills obligatory

as the same may accrue and become payable.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 478.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to meet the deficiency

for the printing of the General Assembly of 1904.

WHEREAS, Chapter 421 of the Acts of 1902 appropriated

for the printing of the General Assembly of 1904 the sum of
eighteen thousand five hundred dollars, including advertise-

Appropriation
for printing.

ments for proposals, awarding contracts, etc. ; and