WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1840..

discretion, prefer levying the whole sum of nine hundred
dollars at their next annual levy, for the purpose of re-
building a bridge over Principle creek, on the post road
leading from Perrysville to Elkton.

CHAP. 202.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Levi H. Evans,
George P. Whittaker and John Conard, be the commission-
ers to contract for, or superintend the building of said
bridge; and that said commissioners shall advertise, in some
newspaper published in Cecil county, for proposals to re-
build said bridge, giving thirty days notice.

Commissioners
to contract for
building.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commission-
ers of said county, shall allow to the said bridge commis-
sioners, such compensation as to them may appear just and
reasonable.

Compensation.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid
bridge commissioners, or a majority of them, shall as soon
as the aforesaid bridge shall be completed, make out and
render to the commissioners of Cecil county, a true and
faithful account of all expenditures incurred in re-building
said bridge.

CHAPTER 202.

Account for
money expend-

ed.

A supplement to an act, entitled an act to establish Magis-
trates Courts in the several Counties of this State, and
to prescribe their Jurisdiction, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

Passed Mar. 6,
1841.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in all the counties of this State, where the magistrates
courts of any district, in any county, have not organized,
or shall not hereafter organize according to the provisions
of the act to which this is a supplement, and the several
supplements thereto, the county courts of the several coun-
ties of this State, shall have jurisdiction in, and take cogni-
zance of all suits or actions whatsoever, which have been
or may hereafter be brought in said county courts, against
any person or persons, residing in any district in which the
justices appointed in and for said district have not qualified,
or shall not hereafter qualify within the time limited by law

Where magis-
trates courts do
not organize,
county courts
to have jurisdic-
tion, &c.

for them to qualify; provided however, that the said county
courts shall not, by this act, have or hold jurisdiction in,
or take cognizance of any case whatever, which said coun-
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Proviso.