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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

countersigned by the clerk thereof, and under the corporate seal of

said board of county commissioners, and said bonds issued by the

county commissioners of Queen Anne's county shall be signed by

the president of said board of county commissioners and counter-

signed by the clerk thereof, and under the corporate seal of said

board of county commissioners; and the said county commissioners

jointly or severally are authorized and empowered to sell and dis-

pose of said bonds at not less than their par value, and to apply the

proceeds thereof to the payment of the capital stock, property, fran-

chises, rights and privileges of said bridge company, and the said

commissioners shall respectively, levy annually on the taxable

inhabitants and property of their respective counties a sum of

money sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds to be issued as

aforesaid for their respective counties, and shall respectively levy

To pay.

on the taxable inhabitants and property of their respective coun-

ties a sum of money sufficient to pay the principal of said bonds

to be issued by them respectively, as aforesaid, as they mature,

and that said purchase, if practicable, shall be effected at the earli-

est date possible.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said commissioners for then-

respective counties are authorized and empowered to levy on the

taxable property of their respective counties in such proportions

Repairs.

as may be agreed on between them, a sum or sums of money suffi-

cient to place said bridge in safe and satisfactory condition for

public use and travel, excepting that no steam engine, traction or

any other kind, shall be permitted to pass over said bridge with-

out the written authority of a majority of each of the boards of

commissioners for said counties.

SEC. 3. And te it enacted, That whenever the county commis-

sioners of Kent county and the county commissioners of Queen

Anne's county respectively, shall have agreed with the stock-

holders of the Chester bridge company for the purchase of the

capital stock, property, franchises, rights and privileges of said

bridge company as authorized by the act of eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, chapter three hundred and seventy-six, to which this

act is a supplement, which capital stock, property, franchises and

privileges, the said bridge company is hereby authorized to sell

To convey

to said counties, and whenever the purchase money so agreed on

shall have been paid, then the said Chester bridge company is

hereby authorized to convey to the said commissioners of Kent

county and of Queen Anne's county by deed as authorized in said

act of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, chapter three hundred

and seventy-six, the said bridge over the Chester river together

with the toll-houses and grounds, the capital stock and all fran-

chises of said Chester bridge company not including however any

judgments, mortgages, bank stock, securities, investments, claims

or accounts against individuals belonging to said Chester bridge