ART. 15.] BRIDGES. 1443

BRIDGE AT CRUMPTON.

1864, ch. 196.

45. The county commissioners of Kent and Queen Anne's

counties shall yearly make such levies upon the assessable prop-
erty of their respective counties as may be necessary to keep in
repair the free bridge over Chester river, at the place called
Crumpton.

Ibid.

46. They 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 who shall receive as a

compensation seventy-five dollars per year for such service.

BRIDGE OVER SASSAFRAS RIVER.

1870, ch. 415.

47. All persons passing over the Sassafras river bridge on
horseback, in carriages, carts, wagons, sleighs or other vehicles,
shall be required to put their horses in a walk, otherwise they
shall be fined five dollars for each and every offence; it shall be
the duty of the bridge tender to see to the enforcement of this
section; any justice of the peace for either Kent county or Cecil
county in which any party violating the above provisions may
be found, shall have jurisdiction in the matter; and the penalty
shall be recovered in the name of the county commissioners of
said counties, in an action of debt.

Ibid.

48. All captains, owners, masters and sailors of vessels, going
through the draw of said bridge, are required to lower and take,
in as much sail as shall be necessary to prevent damage by care-
lessness, before going through the same, and at a sufficient dis-
tance therefrom, to remove liability of injury or damage to said
drawbridge by the headway of such vessels, and shall use, in the
management of said vessels, reasonable care to prevent injury.

Ibid.

49. Any person who, by reason of gross neglect or inattention,
shall violate the preceding section, shall be fined twenty-five dol-