856 ARTICLE 23

An. Code, 1924. sec. 154. 1912, sec. 126. 1904, sec. 114. 1888, sec. 87. 1868, ch. 471,
sec. 119. 1929, ch. 571, sec. 154.

153. The corporation may agree with the owners for the lands or prop-
erty of any kind whatsoever, or interest therein, necessary for the abut-
ments of the bridge and the lands necessary for the digging, constructing
and maintaining of a canal, and for roads and ways thereto, and for earth
or stone required in the construction of said bridge or of said canal and of
said ways, approaches, terminals, docks and wharves; and the rights
acquired by agreement shall be conveyed by deed, duly acknowledged and
recorded. In case of failure to agree, or of disability of the owners to con-
tract, or of their absence from the State, the corporation may obtain the
lands, or property of any kind, or interest therein, earth and stone by con-
demnation. The corporation may proceed to condemn under the pro-
visions of Article 33A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Eminent
Domain," or it may proceed, and is hereby expressly authorized so to do,
under the provisions applicable to railroad companies set forth in Sections
206 and 207 of Article 23 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Corporations."

As to condemnation by other corporations, see secs. 185, 206, 296, 335, 319, 328 and
329, et seq. See also art. 33A.

. An. Code, 1924, sec. 155. 1912, sec. 127. 1904, sec. 115. 1888, sec. 88. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 120.

154. 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, 1924, sec. 156. 1912, sec. 128. 1904, sec. 116. 1888, sec. 89. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 121.

155. 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, 1924, sec. 157. 1912, sec. 130. 1904, sec. 118. 1888, sec. 91. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 123.

156. The written authority or warrant of the county commissioners
and of the governor, in the respective cases, shall be evidence of the right