1831.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 216.

third place, to the payment of the expenses of making, or

causing to be made, such necessary repairs as the said

bridge may, from time to time, hereafter require to preserve

the same in a safe, substantial and permanent condition:

Case of surplus.

Provided however. That if at any time hereafter, after the

reimbursement of the monies that may be procured or ad-

vanced by the said Krebs and Linthecum, as aforesaid, with

interest, the amount of tolls collected at the said bridge

during any year, at the rates aforesaid, shall be such, that

after defraying the expenses of collecting the same, and

making, or causing to be made, such necessary repairs as

aforesaid, as the said bridge may require during such year,

there shall be left a surplus more than sufficient for a rea-

sonable allowance for contingencies, then the mayor and

city council of Baltimore, shall be and they are hereby em-

Tolls reduced.

powered to reduce the afoiesaid rates of tolls, conforming

to the principle upon which the same is established by this

act, so that there may be collected from said bridge as

nearly as may be, a sum not greater than will be necessary

to pay such annual expenses of collecting said tolls, and

making such repairs, and for such contingencies as afore-

said, which reduced rate of tolls, shall continue until such

time as the said mayor and city council, for the purposes

herein provided for, shall think proper to alter the same,

never exceeding however, the rate of tolls herein first pre-

scribed.

On the Corpora-

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if at any time hereaiter the

tion of Baltimore
or an individual

mayor and city council aforesaid, shall assume the charge

assuring to keep in
repair— these tolls

of keeping the said bridge in repair, or any individual or

to cease.

individuals, shall give bond, with security, to be approved

by the mayor aforesaid, to do the same; then all right to de-

mand and collect tolls herein granted, shall cease, and be-

come entirely extinct.

Land condemned

Sec. 3, And be it enacted, That that part of Ridgley street,

highway.

as laid down on the plat of the city aforesaid, which extends

from the Causeway over the three Prong Branch, to the dis-

tance of sixteen feet and a half beyond the continuation of

a line through the centre of the bridge aforesaid, together

with the parcel of land of the width of sixteen feet and a

half on each side of said line, and extending from the south

side of Ridgley street so extended, to the abutment of said

bridge; as also the said bridge, and the land on which the

same is erected, covered with water, be, and the same are

hereby condemned as a public highway forever.

Annual accounts Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said William Krebs

under oath.

aad Richard Linthecum, shall submit to the city council

aforesaid, at their annual session, upon oath, a full account of