PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 621

CHAPTER 443.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Queen
Anne's and Kent counties to transfer and surrender unto the
State Roads Commission, without cost to said commission,
the Chester River bridge approaches, bridge keeper's house
and all other appurtenances acquired by the said counties from
the Chester River Bridge Company under the provisions of
Chapter 85 of the Acts of 1890, and to authorize the said
State Roads Commission to accept from the said County Com-
missioners the said bridge, approaches, bridge keeper's house
and appurtenances, and to thereafter maintain the same as
a part of the system of State roads.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the purpose of connecting the system of State
roads in Queen Anne's and Kent counties, whereby the through
route or continuous thoroughfare of State roads on the Eastern
Shore will be in control of the State Roads Commission upon
the passage of a joint resolution by the Boards of County Com-
missioners of Queen Anne's and Kent counties, transferring;
without cost to the State Roads Commission the bridge across
the Chester River, its approaches, bridge keeper's house and
other appurtenances which were acquired by purchase from the
Chester Bridge Company for the sum of eleven thousand four
hundred dollars ($11,400), and paid for by the counties of
Queen Anne's and Kent, under the provisions of Chapter 85
of the Acts of 1890, the State Roads Commission is hereby
authorized and directed to accept the said Chester bridge,
approaches, bridge keeper's house and appurtenances and to
thereafter maintain the same as part of the system of State
roads.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 444.

AN ACT to repeal section 177A of Article 17 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Prince George's County," sub-title
"Jurors," and to repeal and re-enact with amendments sec-
tions 178 and 179 of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local