370 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.

FERRY OVER POCOMOKE RIVER.

By the act of 1868, c 422 Thomas Merril and Thomas Boston, of Worcester
county, James F. Adams and Thomas W. Sterling, of Somerset county, are con-
stituted commissioners to examine and locate a suitable place to construct a
public ferry across the Pocomoke river, at Rehoboth on said river, and also to
lay out, open and construct a public road leading from Rehoboth to intersect
with the public road running from Newtown to Pitt's wharf in Worcester
county.

That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have full power and
authority to contract for the construction of said road and ferry, with suitable boat,
wharves and all the necessary appurtenances, and to assess all damages for lands;
provided, however, that the sum total for the construction of said road and ferry,
and award for damages, and all other expenses connected shall not exceed the sum
of eight hundred dollars.

That it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or a majority of them, before
they shall enter into any contract for the aforesaid road and ferry, to give at
least fifteen days' notice that such contract will be let out, by advertising the
same in one newspaper in each of the counties aforesaid once in each week for
tiro successive weeks, and at four public places in each county, and it shall
also be the duty of said commissioners, or a majority of them, to award the con-
tract to the lowest responsible bidder, the contractor giving bond, with security,
approved by said commissioners, for the faithful performance of the said con-
tract.

That the said commissioners shall be allowed the sum of two dollars per day for
each day they serve in the capacity of commissioners as aforesaid, (provided the
time does not exceed ten days, ) to be paid by the two counties jointly as other
county charges are paid.

That the county commissioners of the counties aforesaid, upon a report being
made to them by the commissioners appointed by the first section of this act, or a
majority of them, that the aforesaid roads, wharves and ferry have been completed
according to contract, that said county commissioners of Somerset and Worcester
counties are hereby authorized, if in their judgment they shall deem it expedient, to
levy, in equal proportion, on the assessable property of said counties, a, sum sufficient
to pay the contract as above specified; provided further, that the said county com-
missioners shall make provision annually for the keeping of the aforesaid roads and
ferry for public use and benefit.

That the commissioners named in the second section of this act shall establish
such rates of toll to be charged non-residents of the counties aforesaid as they may
deem expedient, not to exceed that charged by the Pocomoke Bridge Company.

JUDGMENTS.

See, under Public Local Laws, Art. XXII, Wicomico County, the act of 1868, c. 16,
making judgments in the circuit courts for Somerset and Worcester counties, liens
in Wicomico county.