ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 69

	ties preliminary to the exercise of the aforesaid powers passed
	at the January session, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight of
	the General Assembly of Maryland, chapter three hundred and
	seventy-six, and to Test other and additional powers in the
	county commissioners of said counties relating to the purchase
	of the capital stock of said Chester river bridge company.
	WHEREAS by chapter three hundred and seventy-six, of the
	acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, the county commis-
	sioners of Kent county and of Queen Anne's county respectively,	Preamble.
	were authorized to purchase the bridge across Chester river at
	Chestertown belonging to the Chester bridge company, and to
	provide for the payment thereof by levies on the taxable inhabi-
	tants of said counties, and to make said bridge a free public bridge
	or thoroughfare; and
	WHEREAS said Chester bridge company was designated in said	Preamble.
	act the "Chester river bridge company ;" and
	WHEREAS it is desired to correct the error in the name of said
	Chester bridge company and to modify and change some of the	Preamble.
	conditions of the purchase authorized by said act; now, therefore
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That the county commissioners of Kent county and the county
	commissioners of Queen Anne's county respectively, instead of pro-
	viding for the payment of the capital stock and property, fran-
	chises, rights and privileges of said Chester bridge company in
	case of the purchase thereof in three equal annual instalments of
	one, two and three years by levies as provided in said act to which
	this is a supplement, be and they are hereby respectively author-
	ized, empowered and directed to issue coupon bonds of their re-	Bonds.
	spective counties, according to their respective proportions of the
	sum necessary to purchase said capital stock, property, franchises,
	rights and privileges as may be agreed on between them, in de-
	nominations of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than
	five hundred dollars, and to an amount not exceeding their respec-
	tive proportions of par value of the capital stock of said Chester
	bridge company, or such other sums less than that as may be re-
	quired to make said purchase, said bonds to bear interest at a rate
	not exceeding six per cent, per annum payable annually, and to
	mature and fall due as follows : one-third of the whole amount
	thereof in eleven years from the date of issuing the same, one-third
	thereof in thirteen years from the date of issuing the same, and the
	remaining third thereof in fifteen years from the date of issuing
	the same, and the bonds issued under this act shall not be liable to	To sell.
	taxation for State, county, municipal or town purposes, and said
	bonds issued by the county commissioners of Kent county shall be
	signed by the president of said board of county commissioners and