JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 395

CHAPTER 268.
AN ACT to alter and amend section two, of an act
entitled an act to authorize the building of a bridge
over the River Patapsco at Ferry Bar, passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six,
chapter two hundred and fifteen.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of	Repealed.
Maryland, That section two, of the act passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chapter two hundred and fifteen, entitled an act to
authorize the building of a bridge over the River
Patapsco at Ferry Bar, section the second, relating
to the draw over the said river, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, (In the stead of the pro-
visions of the second section of the said original act	Shall cause to
so as aforesaid repealed,) that Richard Oweus Crisp,	be built
Ms successors and assigns, shall cause to be built and
kept in repair, a convenient and sufficient draw over
the navigable part of said river, of not less than sixty
feet in width, with flams of fifty feet in length on
either side, at such point as is most usually traversed
by sailing vessels, for the passing and re-passing of
vessels, by day and night, with a space of eighty feet,
arranged in such manner that the ice can pass out;
And shall also cause to be made proper and sufficient
offsets from the bridge at the draw, with the neces-
sary fastenings, for the use of vessels passing said
draw; and the said Richard Owens Crisp, shall, at
his own cost and without charge or toll, cause the
draw or passage-way to be opened without any un-
necessary delay for the passage of all vessels that are
unable to pass under the same.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.	In force
Approved, April 11th, 1874.