1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

it shall be to examine said bridge, together with the

CHAP. 269 To examine and

vouchers of the contractor, and report to the levy court

report

aforesaid, what shall seem to them to have been the

Levy court may

cost of said bridge; and the said levy court, upon the

allow

receipt of such estimate, may allow to said contractor

such additional sum of money as in their judgment

Also to commis-

shall seem to them reasonable and right, and may allow

sioners

said commissioners such compensation for their servi-

ces as shall seem to them reasonable, not exceeding

two dollars per day, and the levy court aforesaid are

hereby authorised and empowered to levy, upon the as-

sessable property of said county, such sum or sums of

money, and cause the same to be collected and paid

over as other county charges are.

CHAPTER 268.

Passed Mar.30,1836

An act to authorise George W. Devecmon, the next friend

of Thomas, Margaret, Ann, Daniel and Peter De-

vecmon, to bring into this Slate a negro slave for life.

May bring into

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

State

That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and

may be l.awful for George W. Devecmon, next friend

of Thomas, Margaret, Ann, Daniel and Peter Devcc-

mon, to bring into this State a negro girl named Fan-

ny, a slave for life, the property of said minors; Pro-

vided, lie shall in all respects comply with the requi-

sitions of the act of Assembly, passed December ses-

sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, chapter eighty-

seven, and also the fourth section of the act of eighteen

hundred and thirty-one, chapter three hundred and

twenty-three.

CHAPTER 269.

Passed Mar.-28 ,1836

An act for the benefit of George Weems, and others.

WHEREAS, George Weems, Watchman and Bratt

and James Harwood, have purchased of Robert Gar-

ner, of Anne Arundel county, a lot of ground in said