DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2155

1894, ch. 47, sec. 3.

18. The County Commissioners of Caroline and Dorchester Counties
shall annually, at their first meeting in May in each year, appoint one
person for each county, who shall be a land holder and resident of the re-
spective election district in each county in which said bridge may be lo-
cated; the said two persons so chosen shall elect a third person as a presi-
dent, who shall be a resident and land holder of one of the election dis-
tricts in which the said bridge may be located; and the said persons so
chosen shall act as a board to superintend and manage the affairs of said
bridge, under such rules and regulations as the said board so constituted
may prescribe, and which shall have full and ample power for the super-
intendence and management of said bridge, but who shall serve without
any compensation for their services.

1894, ch. 47, sec. 4.

19. The County Commissioners of Caroline and Dorchester Counties
are hereby authorized and empowered to levy on the assessable property
of Caroline and Dorchester Counties, such sum of money as may be nec-
essary to carry out and secure the provision of this Act, the expense there-
of to be paid and borne, one-half by Caroline County, and the remaining
one-half by Dorchester County, to be levied at their regular annual levy.

1894, ch. 47, sec. 5.

20. The cost of maintaining the said bridge and keeping it in safe
repair and condition for public travel shall be paid in the same ratio as
in the preceding section, viz: One-half by Caroline County, and one-half
by Dorchester County; and the County Commissioners of the aforesaid
counties are hereby authorized and empowered to levy upon the assessable
property of their respective counties such sum of money as may be neces-
sary, from time to time, to defray said cost, in the proportion aforesaid.

1894, ch. 47, sec. 6.

21. None of the provisions of this Act shall become operative until the
same shall have received the sanction of the Boards of the County Com-
missioners of the counties aforesaid.

BEIDGE AT SHORTER'S WHARF.

1920, ch. 48, sec. 1. 1910, ch. 97 (p. 782).

22. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County are hereby au-
thorized and empowered and required to construct a drawbridge across
the Blackwater River, in said county, at a point called Shorter's Wharf.

CABIN CREEK BRIDGES.

1902, ch. 471.

23. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County are hereby au-
thorized, in their discretion, to construct a bridge across Cabin Creek, at
the town of Cabin Creek, in Dorchester County, in the State of Maryland.