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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 618.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Caroline
County to build a bridge over the Great Choptank River, at
or near Williston, in said County, and to construct cause-
ways and approaches thereto, and also to build a bridge over
the said river at or near the wharf known as Gadd's Wharf,
and to construct causeways and approaches thereto, when-
ever the estimated cost of said bridge and causeways shall,
by the persons particularly interested therein, be deposited
in the Denton National Bank, subject only to the order of
the County Commissioners of said County.

To build
bridges.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Caroline
county be and they are hereby authorized and directed to build
a substantial bridge over the Great Choptank river, at or near
Williston, in Caroline county, with suitable causeways and
approaches thereto, and also to build a similar bridge, cause-
ways and approaches over said river, at a point at or near the
wharf known as Gadd's wharf, on the east side of said river, to

How to be
built.

a point on the west side thereof, to intersect the public road
leading from Denton bridge to James B. Wilson's mill, said
bridge to be constructed either of wood or iron or both, in the
discretion of the said commissioners, to be not less than
eighteen feet wide in the clear, with railings on each side
thereof not less than four feet high, and shall have a draw
therein of sufficient width to afford convenient passage to boats
and steamers up and down said river, which said draw shall at

Proviso.

all times be opened on the approach of boats and steamers so
as not to delay or interrupt their passage; provided, however,
that the said commissioners shall not build said bridges and
causeways or either of them until the estimated cost thereof
shall have been, by the persons particularly interested therein,
deposited in the Denton National Bank, subject to the order
only of the County Commissioners of Caroline count}.

To be built by
contract.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said bridges and cause-
ways shall be built by contract and not otherwise, and that the
estimated cost thereof mentioned in section one of this act,
shall be determined by the lowest and best offer that shall be
made for the building and constructing the same; and the
County Commissioners are hereby authorized to advertise for
sealed proposals for building and constructing said bridges