LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

cording to the laws of this state, whose duty it shall be to
inquire into the value of the land fixed on and appropriated
by the commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them, to
the bridge or causeway and road, and shall return an inquisi-
tion thereof to the justices as aforesaid.

CHAP. 122.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commissi-
oners or a majority of them, shall make a return of
an abstract of their proceedings to Talbot county court,
who shall have power to inquire into the regularity of
the proceedings in relation to the position of the said
bridge or causeway and road; and if the same shall be ra-
tified by the court, a record thereof shall be made by the
clerk of Talbot county court, in the records of the same,
and the said land there appropriated shall be and remain
for the use of the public as other roads in said county.

Commission-
en to make
abstract of
proceedings to
Talbot county
court.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
the county are hereby authorised and required to levy on
the county at their next levy, or at their first levy in the
year eighteen hundred and forty-four, as in their discretion
they may think proper, a sum of money not exceeding fifty
dollars, to pay all expences which it may be necessary to
incur in anywise under this act.

Commission-
ers authorised
to levy.

SEC. 5. A?id be it enacted, That if any person or per-
sons shall wilfully and feloniously set fire to or burn any
part of said bridge or causeway, he, she or they, as the case
may be, shall be deemed guilty of arson, and upon being
therefore convicted, shall suffer such punishment as is, or
may be provided by law for persons guilty of arson.

Punishment,

&c.

CHAPTER 122.

A supplement to an act to incorporate the Frederick-Town

Savings Institution.

Passed Feb.
21, 1843.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the board of directors of the Frederick
Town Savings Institution shall hereafter consist of nine
members to be annually elected as provided in the act of in-
corporation, of whom six only shall be re-eligible at the
next succeeding election, and no person shall continue as
director for more than six successive years, except the pre-
sident thereof.

Directors an-
nually to be
elected.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the board of directors in the month of January next, after
the passage of this act, and every third year thereafter to

To publish
list of balan-
ces annually.