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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, 1924, sec. 158. 1912, sec. 131. 1904, sec. 119. 1888, sec. 92. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 124.

157. 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. 219, 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. 219.

See art. 25, sec. 34.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 159. 1912, sec. 132. 1904, sec. 120. 1888, sec. 93. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 125.

158. Before the governor shall issue his warrant authorizing the col-
lection of tolls, he shall be satisfied, from the report of five commissioners,
to be appointed by him, that the bridge has been erected and completed in
a substantial and proper manner.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 160. 1912, sec. 133. 1904, sec. 121. 1888, sec. 94. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 126.

159. When any citizen shall allege, in writing, to the circuit court for
any county, that any bridge situate within or partly within said county
is not kept in proper order and repair, the same proceedings may be had
in said court as are hereinafter provided in cases of turn-pike or plank
roads alleged not to be in proper order and repair.

Building or Homestead Associations.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 161. 1912, sec. 134. 1904, sec. 122. 1888, sec. 95. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 84.

1931, ch. 467.

160. Any homestead or building association, formed under the pro-
visions of this Article, shall have power, in its certificate of incorporation
or its by-laws, to limit the number of shares which each stockholder may
be allowed to hold; to prescribe the entrance fee to be paid by each stock-
holder at the time of subscribing; and to regulate the instalments to be
paid on each share; provided, the same shall not exceed the sum of one
dollar per share per week; and the times at which the same shall be
payable.

This section referred to in upholding constitutionality of sec. 129—see notes thereto.
Carozza v. Federal Finance Co., 149 Md. 246.

This section does not authorize the charging of entrance fees to borrowing members
only, nor a variety of entrance fees, nor any entrance fee unless there is a provision in.
the charter fixing the amount of the fee. Ehrhart v. Bldg. & Loan Assn., 157 Md. 43.

Cited but not construed in Watson v. Loan & Savings Asso., 158 Md. 343.

This section referred to in construing sec. 151—see notes thereto. Commercial Assn. v.
Mackenzie, 85 Md. 143.

This section referred to in construing sec. 163—see notes thereto. White v. Williams,
90 Md. 723; Commercial Assn. v. Mackenzie, 85 Md. 143; Williar v. Baltimore, etc.,
Loan Assn., 45 Md. 562.

For a case construing secs. 30 to 32 of art. 26 of the Code of 1860, see Lord v. Essex Bldg.
Assn., 37 Md. 324.

Cited but not construed in Reus Loan Co. v. Conrad, 101 Md. 225; Baltimore Bldg.
Assn. v. Powhatan Co., 87 Md. 64; International Fraternal Alliance v. State, 86 Md. 554;
Faust v. Twenty-third, etc., Bldg. Assn., 84 Md. 190; Middle States Co. v. Hagerstown
Mattress Co., 82 Md. 513; Emory v. State, 41 Md. 57.

As to petty loans, see art. 58A.