LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 374.

AN ACT to authorize and empower William T. Barkley and
Noah Webster to construct a wharf at the foot of Mill
street, in the town of Cambridge, Dorchester County, and
to erect a temporary bulkhead or breakwater therefrom, to
the Long Wharf, at the foot of High street, in said town.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That William T. Barkley and Noah Webster of the
town of Cambridge, in Dorchester county, be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to construct and erect a
wharf at and adjoining the foot of Mill street, in said town of
Cambridge, said wharf to extend out into the Great Choptank
River for a distance not exceeding three hundred yards, to be
of the same width as said Mill street, and to run and extend
in a parallel direction therewith.

May con-
struct wharf

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said wharf, when so con-
structed and erected, shall be the property of the said William.
T. Barkley and Noah Webster, their heirs and assigns, as ten-
ants in common; provided, that the corporation of Cambridge
and its agents, shall forever have the right to use the same as
a wharf or landing for corporation purposes without any
charge or hinderance whatever. And no deposit of shells or
other impediment to free navigation shall extend beyond the
lines of said wharf other than as the same may at present
exist; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed so
as to forbid the said William T. Barkley and Noah Webster
from extending their shell wharf adjacent to the foot of said
Mill street, out into said Great Choptank River for an equal
distance with the wharf which they are herein authorized and
empowered to construct.

Use of wharf
by town.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said William T. Bark-
ley and Noah Webster, with the consent of the adjacent and
contiguous riparian proprietors, in writing, first had and
obtained, be and they are further authorized and empowered
to build a temporary bulkhead or breakwater from a point on
said wharf two hundred yards from the said foot of said Mill
street parallel with the shore, to intersect the Long Wharf, at
the foot of High street, in said town of Cambridge; provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair. or
affect in any manner any right or rights whatever of any of
said adjacent and contiguous riparian proprietors.

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May build
bulkhead.