1660 QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. [ART. 18.

respective counties; and upon the purchase and payment thereof,
said commissioners shall have prepared and executed a deed from
said bridge company for all the property, rights and franchises of
said company to said Queen Anne's and Kent counties in the
proportions of ownership, as shall be agreed on and established
by their several boards of county commissioners in the purchase

thereof; to be taken, held and perpetuated as a free bridge and
public thoroughfare between said counties.

1888, ch. 376.

39. There shall be a keeper of said bridge, who shall be
appointed for a term of two years by the joint action of the
county commissioners of Queen Anne's and Kent counties, at a

salary that may be agreed on between them; and the said bridge
shall be kept-in good repair, and the said keeper shall attend the

draw thereof so as to admit the passage of steamboats, vessels
and other water-craft through said draw-way at all proper hours;
and said keeper may be appointed supervisor for the repair of
said bridge or to superintend the repair thereof, under the direc-

tion and authority of said county commissioners; and all the

expenses of salary and repair as aforesaid shall be borne by said
counties in the proportion of their respective ownerships in said
bridge; and the amount necessary to keep said bridge in repair,
and to pay the keeper's salary, shall be annually levied by said
respective commissioners upon their respective counties in the
proportions as aforesaid; and the liabilities of said respective

counties for damages received shall be also in the proportions as
aforesaid.

BROAD HARBOR.

1888, ch. 841.

40. "Broad Creek," Kent island, Queen Anne's county, an

estuary of Chesapeake bay, shall hereafter be called and known
.as "Broad Harbor."

CENTREVILLE.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 17, sec. 80.

41. The town of Centreville, in Queen Anne's county, is incor-
porated, and the inhabitants thereof are a body politic, by the