ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 3O1.

AN ACT to revive and create the Woodland Bridge

Company, with all the rights, privileges and powers

conferred upon it by chapter eighty-five of the acts

of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at

January session, in the year eighteen hundred and

fifty-four, entitled "An act to incorporate a com-

pany to erect a bridge over the Patuxent river, be-

tween Anne Arundel and Prince George's coun-

ties," amended by chapter two hundred and ninety-

eight of the acts of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed at the January session, in the year

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An act

to repeal, amend and re-enact section four of the

acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed

at the January session, in the year eighteen hundred

and fifty-four, chapter eighty-five, entitled 'An act

to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the

Patuxent river, between Anne Arundel and Prince

George's counties.' "

WHEREAS the Woodland Bridge Company, incorpo-

rated by an act of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed at the January session, in the year eigh-

teen hundred and fifty-four, chapter eighty-five, entitled

"An act to incorporate a company to erect a bridge

over the Patuxent river, between Anne Arundel and

Prince George's counties," did not organize on or

before the tenth day of April next ensuing the pas-

sage of said act, as required by the provisions of said

act, and William B. Hill, by virtue of the authority

Preamble.

conferred on him by said act, on said defalcation of

organization of the Woodland Bridge Company, built

and maintained the bridge, causeways and roads au-

thorized in said act; and whereas, owing to the

destruction of the said bridge by the recent floods,

the said William B. Hill is willing to sell the rights,

privileges and property he now has in said bridge,

causeways and roads, to the Woodland Bridge Com-

pany, to be revived by this act, the Patuxent river