ART. 14.] KENT COUNTY. 85

BRIDGE AT CRUMPTON.

Chapter 196 enacts as follows :

SEC. 1. The county commissioners for Kent and Queen Anne's
counties, are hereby authorized and required to levy upon the
assessable property of their respective counties, one-half of the
sum necessary to repair the free bridge over Chester river, at a
place called Crumpton, and shall yearly make such further levies
as may be necessary to keep said bridge in good repair.

2. The county commissioners of said counties, are hereby
authorized to employ some suitable person or persons to repair
said bridge, in such manner and upon such terms as said com-
missioners shall determine.

3. The said county commissioners shall employ some person
to have charge of said bridge, who shall attend every day from
sunrise to sunset to open the draw for the passage of vessels,
and shall receive as a compensation, seventy-five dollars per
year for such service.

In force from March 2, 1864.

CHESTERTOWN.

Chapter 277 adds the following;

4. The commissioners of Chestertown may appoint the col-
lector of taxes for Kent county, or of the district of which
Chestertown forms a part, to collect the corporation tax of said
town from time to time, and the collector thus appointed, shall
be bound to give bond, and collect the said taxes according to the
terms and provisions of the forty-seventh section, of this Article,
under the penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered by indictment
by the grand jury, and judgment of the Circuit Court for Kent
county, as in ordinary cases of punishment; and the said collector
shall receive the same compensation for collecting said tax, as
he may receive from the county commissioners for collecting
the county tax.

Passed March 7, 1864.
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