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times, if the owners thereof will, on or before the first day of
October, 1876, agree to sell the same unto the said Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and the County Commission-
ers of Anne Arundel county, at a price and upon such terms
and conditions, as to them may appear lair and reasonable.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, and the County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel county, shall not be able by mutual agreement to
purchase said Light Street Bridge from its owners on or be-
fore the first day of October, 1876, as provided in the preced-
ing Section of this Act, then and in that case the said Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and the County Commissioners
of Anne Arundel county, are hereby authorized, empowered
and directed to build a substantial bridge over said river,
or the south-west branch thereof, from some suitable point on
the Anne Arundel county shore of said river, within a reason-
able distance from the southernmost terminus of said "Light
Street Bridge" westwardly, to a convenient and practicable
point in Baltimore county; and the said Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, and the County Commissioners of Anne Arun-
del county are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by
inquisition, purchase or otherwise all the lands and materials
necessary for the construction of the said bridge and its abut,
ments, and for necessary roads leading to and from the same for
the convenience of public travel, and said bridge when built,
shall be maintained and kept in proper repair by the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel county as a free bridge; provid-
ed that the entire cast to said city and county of said bridge
and abutments, together with the cost of the necessary lands
and roads leading to and from the same, shall not exceed in
the aggregate the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars.

Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be ap-
pointed annually, some competent person to act as a bridge-
keeper, whose duty it shall be to attend to the opening and
closing of the draw of the said bridge, so purchased or built,
when required, and also to attend to such other duties in re-
gard to keeping said bridge in safe and proper condition for
public travel; and the said bridge-keeper shall receive for his
services such compensation as the said Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore and the County Commissioners of Anne
Arundel county, shall think just and proper, to be provided
for in their annual levy, which appointment shall be made
the first year, and on the first day of April, every second
year thereafter by the County Commissioners of Anne Arun-
del county, and on the first day of April in every alternate
year by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.