1840.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 189.

May issue
their bonds,
&c.

pro tanto of any amount which they may ascertain to be
justly due to him upon the principles above prescribed.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said company,
be, and they are hereby authorized and directed, to
issue their bonds or certificates of debt, of like character
with the bonds or certificates authorized by the above
mentioned act, to such an additional amount as may be
requisite and sufficient to pay the amount which may be
found due, under the provisions of this act, to the said
Passmore McCullough, and which said bonds or certifi-
cates of debt, the said Passmore McCullough, is hereby
required to receive at par, in satisfaction of the amount, if
any which may be so found to be due to him as aforesaid.

Costs of arbi-
tration to be
taxed in this
case.

Referees
authorised to
take other tes-
timony.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the usual costs of ar-
bitration shall be allowed and taxed in this case, as the
arbitrators herein appointed shall direct.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the proofs taken in the
reference directed by the act of eighteen hundred and
forty-one, chapter one hundred sixty eight, shall be taken
as evidence before the referees herein appointed; and that
the referees be also authorized to take any other testimony
submitted to them by the parties.

CHAPTER 189.

Passed Feb.
28, 1844.

An act to make valid a certain levy, made by the Levy
Court of Caroline county, and to authorize the said
Court to levy an additional sum for the completion of a
certain Bridge over the Choptank River in said county.

Preamble.

Whereas the Levy Court of Caroline county having
levied the sum of three hundred dollars, which was col-
lected and applied under a supposed authority, that they
possessed the light to levy the same for the erection of a
bridge over the Choptank river, near the town of Greens-
borough, which was destroyed by the heavy rains of
eighteen hundred and forty-three—Therefore,

Made valid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said levy be and the same is hereby made valid,
and that the said Levy Court be authorized for the pur-
pose of completing the said bridge, to levy the sum of
one hundred dollars more, if in the judgment of the said
court that sum be required to complete said bridge.