WORCESTER COUNTY. 5247

1910, ch. 106. 1920 Code, sec. 252.

189. To make this Act effective, binding and mandatory upon the
County Commissioners of Somerset County and the County Commission-
ers of Worcester County, the stockholders of the said Pocomoke Bridge
Company are hereby required to accept and ratify the terms and provi-
sions of this Act within three months after the passage of this Act at a
meeting called for that purpose, and to notify in writing the County
Commissioners of Somerset County and also the County Commissioners
of Worcester County of their acceptance hereof. Such notification shall
be sufficient if signed by the chairman of the stockholders' meeting, and
certifying to the said County Commissioners that at a meeting of the
stockholders on a day named therein said stockholders by resolution en-
tered upon their minutes have accepted and ratified the provisions of this
Act. And upon such acceptance by the stockholders of the Pocomoke
Bridge Company and such notification of the County Commissioners of
each of said counties, this Act shall become binding and effective as a
contract between the County Commissioners of Somerset County and the
County Commissioners of Worcester County on the one part, and the
Pocomoke Bridge Company of the other part, for a full period of twenty
years from the date of said acceptance by the Pocomoke Bridge Company
of the provisions of this Act, and no longer, and all of said moneys shall
be levied and paid over annually during said period of twenty years, and
no longer, and the said drawbridge shall be used free of toll by the resi-
dents and non-resident taxpayers of the said counties, and their beasts
and vehicles, for said twenty years, and no longer; but the Pocomoke
Bridge Company, notwithstanding their acceptance of this Act, may at the
completion of said twenty years resume the collection of lawful tolls for
all persons, beasts and vehicles passing over the said drawbridge in all
respects as if this Act had never been passed, but the County Commis-
sioners of Somerset County and the County Commissioners of Worcester
County shall have power at the completion of said term of twenty years
to enter into such agreement with the Pocomoke Bridge Company, its
successors and assigns for the use of said bridge, free from tolls, for the
residents of their respective counties, as they may think proper, and may
levy all sums which they may see fit to contract to pay in consideration of
the free use of the same upon the taxable property of their respective
counties.

POCOMOKE CITY.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24. sec. 202. 1906, ch. 549. 1920 Code, sec. 253.

190. The inhabitants of Pocomoke City in Worcester County, are now
and shall hereafter be, as they have heretofore been, a body corporate

*Pocomoke City has been authorized to issue bonds as follows: 1902, ch. 110,
$13.000 refunding bonds; 1908, ch. 270, $12,000 for floating debt; 1912, ch. 164,
$35,000 for street improvements (There was provision for special assessments
against abutting property owners); 1924, ch. 99, $55,000 of refunding bonds; 1929,
ch. 2, $50,000 for water and sewers.