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the Potomac River near Point of Rocks, Maryland, connecting the State
highway systems of the two States, and to pay one-half of the purchase
price thereof, said one-half not to exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars
($50, 000), out of funds appropriated for the construction of roads and
bridges in the State highway system, provided the Commonwealth of
"Virginia shall pay the other one-half. Title to the said bridge and ap-
proaches shall be vested jointly in the State of Maryland and the Com-
monwealth of Virginia, in each an undivided one-half interest.

1931. ch. 539. sec. 35.

35. The State Roads Commission of Maryland is hereby authorized

and empowered to join with the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County,
Virginia, to purchase and acquire the interstate highway bridge and

approaches over the Potomac River at Brunswick, Maryland, connecting
the Maryland State highway system with the County Highway system of
Loudoun County, at a price not to exceed the sum of one hundred thousand

dollars ($100, 000). Title to the said bridge and approaches shall be

vested jointly in the State of Maryland and in the Board of Supervisors
of Loudoun County, in each an undivided one-half interest.

1031. ch. 539, sec. 36.

36. The State Roads Commission of Maryland is hereby authorized to
provide for the charge and collection of tolls for the use of said bridges
and approaches at the same rate of toll now in effect or which may after-
wards be agreed upon by the State Roads Commission of Maryland and
the Commonwealth of Virginia, or which may be prescribed by any Board
or Commission having power to fix such rates of toll and for the applica-
tion of the tolls collected after the payment of the cost of collection on
the purchase price of said bridge and approaches at Brunswick, Maryland,
at a cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100, 000) and
interest thereon, until said purchase price and interest thereon is fully
paid, provided that thereafter both of said bridges and approaches shall
be free of tolls. And the State Roads Commission of Maryland is hereby

empowered to contract and promise to pay the whole of the purchase price

of said bridge and approaches at Brunswick, Maryland, or any part thereof
remaining unpaid, at any time until the said bridges are fully paid for;

and to use the funds appropriated for the construction of roads and bridges
in the State highway system for this purpose and to continue the tolls on
both of the said bridges until the whole purchase price and interest thereon
is fully repaid to the funds appropriated for the construction of roads and
bridges in the State highway system.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 37.

37. The State Roads Commission of Maryland is hereby authorized

and empowered to provide for the payment of one-half of the cost of
repair, operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches near
Point of Rocks, Maryland, if said bridge and approaches are acquired