THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

bridge and shall award to the owners of lands on

CHAP. 152

which said bridge shall be built, such damages as in

their opinion said owners of lands shall sustain, taking

into consideration the advantages and disadvantages

thereof, and shall adopt a plan according to which said

bridge shall be constructed and of such materials as

they may think best.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

Notice required

of the levy court of said county to give four weeks

notice in at least two newspapers printed in Frederick

Town, for proposals for building said bridge.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said judges of

Contract

the levy court are hereby authorised to contract with

Sny person or persons to build said bridge, and to take

bond or bonds with sufficient security from any person

or persons contracting as aforesaid, for the faithful

performance of their contract.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That when said bridge is

Free bridge

finished it shall be A free bridge for all persons to pass

and repass.-

CHAPTER 152.

An act to authorise the extension of a street in the vil-

Passed Mar. 12, 1836

lage of Fort Deposite, Cecil county, and td connect

the same with the public road.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-

Preamble

bly by the petition of sundry inhabitants of the village

6f Port Deposite, Cecil county, that the commissioners

of said village have laid out a street thirty-three feet

wide, about two" hundred feet from, and nearly parallel

with Water street, communicating with the public road,

with the exception of about forty feet of broken ground

in a run, and that in their opinion it will be necessary

to build a bridge over said run to complete and render

useful the said street, — Therefore:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Commissioners

Maryland, That Thomas Patten, George Gale and

George A. Thomas, be and they are hereby appointed

commissioners, and they, or a majority of them, are

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