1226 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 494

CHAPTER 494.

AN ACT to authorize and empower a Commission
to acquire by purchase, condemnation or other-
wise, the bridge over the Susquehanna River be-
tween Havre de Grace and Perryville used for vehicular
and foot passenger traffic, with the approaches, easements,
land, roads, rights, and franchises, belonging to any per-
son or corporation necessary or convenient for the purposes
specified, and to authorize the creation, of a State debt in
the aggregate amount of seven hundred thousand dollars
($700,000,00) or such thereof as is necessary for the acqui-
sition of said bridge, and providing generally for the issue
and sale of certificates of indebtedness evidencing said loan
to carry out the provisions of this Act, and fixing certain
regulations regarding the maintenance of said bridge and
tolls thereon after it has been acquired.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State Roads Commission of Maryland be and
it is hereby authorized and empowered, in the the exercise
of the power conferred by Section 48 of Article 91 of the An-
notated Code of Maryland, and in no way in limitation of the
power so conferred, to acquire by purchase, condemnation or
otherwise (and when so acquired to maintain) the bridge over
the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace, in Harford
County, and Perryville, in Cecil County, used for vehicular
and foot passenger traffic, together with all lands, roads, ap-
proaches, rights, franchises and easements belonging to any per-
son or corporation, and necessary or convenient for the purposes
specified in said Section 48 of Article 91 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland; provided, that the price, whether fixed by agree-
ment as herein-after provided or by condemnation, shall not ex-
ceed the sum of six hundred ninety thousand dollars ($690,000.)

SECTION 2. And be if further enacted, That the Chairman
of the State Roads Commission, a member of the Public Service
Commission, and the Attorney-General of Maryland be and they
are hereby constituted a Commission for the purposes of this
Section, and said Commission is herewith authorized to make an
offer on behalf of the State of Maryland in a Sum not exceeding
Six Hundred and Ninety Thousand Dollars ($690,000) to the
Havre de Grace and Perryville Bridge Company a body corpor-
ate. (or to its successors in interest) for the said bridge, land,