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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Build bridge

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That before the said

causeway shall be cut or opened, that there shall be

built a bridge in the most substantial manner, which

bridge shall be secured at each end by good sufficient

abutments or piers, the said bridge to be not less

than twelve feet wide, with substantial railing on

each side and with a draw at least sixty feet wide

in said bridge, at the deepest part of said Narrows;

after the same shall have been deepened and the

obstructions removed therefrom, so as to make the

passage through the entire route safe, provided, said
bridge is complete by the first day of January next.

Levied equally

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if a substantial

bridge according to the provisions of the filth section

cannot be built for four thousand dollars, the addi-

tional money necessary therefore, shall be levied

equally upon Queen Anne and Talbot counties.

In force

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 277.

AN ACT to amend the act passed at the January

session, eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter

three hundred and eighty-five, entitled an act to

incorporate the District of Columbia, Upper Marl-

bora and Hill's Landing Turnpike Company, and

to extend the time for the. completion of said turn-

pike.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed and
enacted in lien,

Maryland, That section fifteen of chapter three hun-

dred and eighty-five of the laws passed January ses-

sion eighteen hundred and seventy, be and the same

is hereby repealed and the following section enacted

in lieu thereof.