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the violation of this Section and fined a sum of not less than
fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, or to be
subject to both fine and forfeiture, in the discretion of the
Justice of the Peace trying the case.

Approved April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 207.

AN ACT to authorize the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Company,
its successors and assigns to construct and operate a bridge
over the Chesapeake Bay according to plans to be approved
by the State Roads Commission, to grant consent to the use
of certain lands under the waters of the bay, to authorize
said company its successors and assigns to collect tolls and
other charges for the use of said bridge, to fix a gross re-
ceipts tax to be paid by said company its successors and as-
signs in lieu of all other taxation, to confer upon said com-
pany its successors and assigns the power of condemnation,
to prohibit the construction of any other bridge over said bay
within ten miles of said bridge, and to provide the further
terms and conditions on which said bridge may be constructed
and operated.

WHEREAS, it will promote the prosperity of the people of
this State. that, a bridge be constructed across the Chesapeake
Bay, joining the western and eastern shores of said Bay; and

WHEREAS, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Company, a cor-
poration duly created and existing under. the laws of this State,
has offered to construct such bridge and to maintain it as a
toil bridge, on the conditions hereinafter provided;

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Company, a corpora-
tion duly created and existing under the general laws of
this State, is hereby authorized to construct a bridge over the
Chesapeake Bay from a point in Baltimore County near the
mouth of Back River, to a point in Kent County between
Rock Hall and Tolchester Beach, together with appropriate
fills, approaches and appurtenant structures, and to maintain,
operate, repair and rebuild the same.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That said bridge shall be a
highway bridge for vehicular traffic and the driveway of said