864 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

1886, ch. 124.

276. All bridges over any railroad now existing or hereafter
to be constructed in Cecil county, shall fulfil all the requirements.
of county bridges as to structure fill and safety.

REGISTER OF WILLS.

1888, ch. 76.

277. The register of wills for Cecil county is authorized and
required to transcribe the index of deceased persons in his office
into new books, well bound, for that purpose; and also to make
in books suitable for that purpose a general index of wards in
his said office.

Ibid.

278. The costs of said books shall be paid by the county com-
missioners for said county, and said register of wills shall be paid
for transcribing and making such index, and continuing the same,
out of the surplus proceeds of his office; and if there be no such
surplus, then the said county commissioners shall allow and pay
to the said register of wills for said work, such fees and compensa-
tion as are now allowed by said county commissioners to the clerk
of the circuit court for said county for work of a similar character.

RISING SUN.

1863, ch. 151.

279. The citizens of the village of Rising Sun are a body
politic, by the name of "The Commissioners of Rising Sun,"
with all the privileges of a body corporate, and as such shall have
succession, and by their corporate name may sue and be sued,
plead and be impleaded, grant, receive, and do all other acts as
natural persons, and may purchase and hold real, personal and
mixed property, or dispose of the same for the benefit of said vil-
lage, and have and use a common seal, which they may change
at pleasure.

Ibid.

280. The male citizens of said village, of the age of twenty.
one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States, who
shall have resided in said village for and during the space of six