86 CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6.
DOVER BRIDGE.
Chapter 128 enacts the following:
WHEREAS, the General Assembly of Maryland, at the January
session, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, passed an act
authorizing the county commissioners of Talbot and Caroline
counties, to subscribe the sum of five thousand dollars in each
county to build a bridge across the Choptank river, at Dover
Ferry, now called Dover Bridge: and whereas, the county com-
missioners of Caroline county have subscribed and paid the
sum of five thousand dollars for said county; and whereas, the
General Assembly failed to enact that in the event either county
should pay the said sum of five thousand dollars, then the
citizens of said county should pass over said bridge free from
the payment of toll; therefore,
SEC. 1. The inhabitants of Caroline county shall have the
privilege of passing over said Dover Bridge with their vehicles,
carriages, wagons, carts, horses, mules, oxen, cattle, sheep, hogs,
and all other property free from all toll or exaction of any
kind.
2. The county commissioners of Caroline county are hereby
required to levy and pay annually the sum of two hundred and
fifty dollars, to whatever person or persons that may have
charge of said bridge for the purpose of keeping said bridge and
causeway leading to said bridge in repair, and to compensate
the person who may attend the draw of said bridge.
In force from March 24, 1865.
TEMPLEVILLE.
Chapter 86 enacts the following:
8. The citizens of the town of Templeville, in Caroline and
Queen Anne's counties, are hereby created a body corporate, by
the name and of the commissioners of Templeville, with all the
privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and
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