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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

being navigable stream where it is crossed by said

bridge.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Woodland Bridge Company

be and the same is hereby revived and created, with

all the rights, privileges .and powers conferred on it by

chapter eighty-five of the acts of the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, passed at the January session, in the

year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled "An act

to incorporate a company to erect a bridge over the

Patuxent river, between Anne Arundel and Prince

George's counties," amended by chapter two hundred

and ninety-eight of the acts of the General Assembly

How amended.

of Maryland, 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 in-

corporate a company to erect a bridge over the Patux-

ent river, between Anne Arundel and Prince George's

counties;'" provided the said company organize on

or before the first day of June next ensuing the pass-

age of this act, and that section one of said chapter

eighty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and fifty-

four, entitled as above, be and the same is hereby

amended so as to read as follows :

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That William B. Hill, of Prince George's

county, and Joseph Shepherd, Joseph Chaney and

Samuel Gardner, of Anne Arundel county, and such

other citizens of this state as may be .associated with

Body politic

them, be and they are hereby made a body politic and

and corporate.

corporate by the name of the Woodland Bridge Com-

pany, and as such may sue and be sued, implead and

be impleaded, have and use a common seal, and

the same alter and renew at pleasure, and have

perpetual succession, for the purpose of erecting and

Maintain a toll
bridge.

maintaining a toll-bridge over the Patuxent river,

between Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties,

at or near Woodland, in Prince George's county, and

above Bristol, in Anne Arundel county, and making

and maintaining causeways and roads thereto. The

capital of said company shall not exceed ten thousand

dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each ;

and shares shall be considered as personal property,