ART. 25] BRIDGES. 719

1888, art. 25, sec. 18 1870, ch 333

18t If any county commissioner shall violate any of the
provisions of the two preceding sections, he shall be liable to
indictment, and, upon conviction, shall forfeit his office, and
shall also forfeit his share in the agreement, contract or claim,
as aforesaid, as the case may be.

Bridges.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1860, ch. 28, sec. 47. 1856, ch. 308, sec. 2.

19. All applications for building and repairing bridges shall
be made by petition to the county commissioners.
Bembe v Anne Aiundel Co., 94 Md. 331.

Ibid, sec 20 1860, art. 28, sec. 48 1856, ch 308, sec. 2.

20. When any person intends to apply for building or
repairing any bridge, he shall give notice in the same manner
and for the same length of time prescribed for applications
for opening roads; and the county commissioners, when they
have heard the reasons and evidences for and against the appli-
cation, shall determine the case as in their judgment will best
promote the public convenience.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1860, art. 28, sec 49. 1856, ch. 308, sec. 3.
21t Whenever the county commissioners shall have deter-
mined to build or repair a bridge, they shall, at their usual
time for levying taxes, levy on the assessable property of the
county a sum sufficient to pay for the bridge and its embank-
ment and abutments.

Ibid. sec. 22. 1860, art. 28, sec. 50. 1856, ch. 308, sec. 4. 1864, ch 114.
22. All bridges shall be built or repaired by contract; and
the county commissioners shall advertise in one or more news-
papers; and if there be no newspaper published in the county
or counties, then by such public notice as they may deem most
advisable, setting forth the place where said bridge is to be
built or repaired, with full specifications of the plan and
materials, and that sealed proposals for building or repairing
said bridge will be received until a day named in the adver-
tisement; provided, however, that nothing herein shall apply
to the building of bridges, the cost of which shall not exceed
two hundred dollars, nor to repairs of existing bridges where
the cost of said repairs shall not exceed that sum; and in all
cases where such cost of building or repairing shall not exceed