722 ARTICLE 23.

An. Code, sec. 127. 1904, sec. 115. 1888, sec. 88. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 120.

155. When a bridge located in one county shall be completed, the
president and directors of the corporation shall report in writing to the
county commissioners of said county, under the oath or affirmation of the
president and a majority of the directors, and of the treasurer of the
company, the actual cost of construction of said bridge; and the county
commissioners shall appoint three persons to examine the same and report
whether it has been constructed in such a substantial and durable manner
as is required to promote the public convenience, and the report shall be
reviewed and ratified, or rejected by the county commissioners; who may
appoint other persons to report thereon, in their discretion; and if it shall
be finally determined by the county commissioners that the bridge is
erected in a proper manner, they may authorize the corporation to charge
such rates of toll as may be sufficient to yield a net dividend of eight per
centum per annum to the stockholders or members of said corporation,
making due allowance always for cost of necessary repairs and recon-
struction from accident or otherwise.

An. Code, sec. 128. 1904, sec. 116. 1888, sec. 89. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 121.

156. The corporation shall revise the rates of toll every six months
for three years from the completion of the bridge, and shall report at each
period to the county commissioners the gross amounts of receipt and expen-
diture; and the rates of toll shall be so readjusted, if need be, as to yield
not more than eight per centum net dividend; and at any time thereafter
the corporation shall, on demand of the county commissioners, report the
amounts of receipt and expenditure for any period demanded, and the tolls
shall be readjusted so as to yield not more than said dividend. The rates
of toll to be charged shall be specified in writing by the county commis-
sioners.

An. Code, sec. 130. 1904, sec. 118. 1888, sec. 91. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 123.

157. The written authority or warrant of the county commissioners
and of the governor, in the respective cases, shall be evidence of the right
of the corporation to charge the tolls demanded; and said authority or
warrant shall be printed and exposed to public inspection at every place
where the payment of tolls may be demanded.

An. Code, sec. 131. 1904, sec. 119. 1888, sec. 92. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 124.

158. No bridge shall be erected on a navigable river, unless authorized
by an act of the general assembly.

A railway company incorporated under this article is not entitled to a mandamus
to compel the board of public works to take action upon the plans submitted to it
under sec. 217, unless legislative assent has been procured for the erection of the
bridge as required by this section. The application of this section is not limited
to companies for the erection of bridges. Dundalk, etc., Ry. Co. v. Governor Smith,
97 Md. 180.

See sec. 217.

See art. 25, sec. 33.