1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 110

Dividends.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said presi-
dent and directors shall keep a just and true ac-
count of all moneys secured by their several and
respective collectors of tolls for crossing the said
bridge, and shall make and declare a dividend of
the profits and income thereof among all the stock-
holders, first deducting therefrom all contingent
costs and charges, and such proportion of the said
income as they may deem necessary to provide
against decay, and for repairing the said bridge
and causeways, and shall on every first Monday in
May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and thereaf-
ter, publish in some newspaper in Talbot and Caro-
line counties, the dividend to be made of the said
clear profits thereof, among the stockholders, and
of the time and place where and when the same
shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid
accordingly.

Company pro-
tected against
injury or
other wrong.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That if any person
or persons shall wilfully, or without the orders of
the said president and directors, pull down, break
or destroy, with intent to injure, any part or parts
of said bridge, or of any abutments, pier or piers,
or of any of the houses, gates, bars, or other
property of the said corporation appurtenant to, or
erected or made for the use and convenience of the
said bridge, or the persons employed in conducting
the business thereof, or shall wilfully, without the
orders and consent of the said corporation, or any
person or persons authorised by them, obliterate,
deface or destroy the letters, figures, or other char-
acters, in any written or printed list of the rates of
tolls affixed or to be affixed in any place or places,
for the information of passengers or others, or who
shall wilfully and maliciously obstruct or impede
the passage on or over the said bridge, or any part
or parts thereof, he. she or they so offending shall
each of them forfeit and pay to the said president,
directors and company not exceeding the sum of
twenty dollars, to be recovered before any justice
of the peace in the manner and subject to the same
rules and regulations as debts under fifty dollars
are recovered.

May agree
with owners
of land, &c.,
required for
the uses of
the company.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the said presi-
dent, directors and company, or a majority of
them, if necessary, may agree to and with the
owners of any land on which it is intended to
abut the said bridge and build a toll house, or