THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

CHAPTER 298.

CHAP. 277.

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act la provide for
the erection of a Bridge over the Great Falls of Gun-
powder, at Tyson's Mill in Baltimore County, passed
at December session eighteen hundred and thirty-six,
chapter one hundred and ninety-five.

Passed Mar. 29,
1838.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of Baltimore coun-
ty, be, and they are hereby authorised and required at
their next annual levy, to levy upon the assessable pro-
perty of said county, any sum not exceeding eight

Levy directed.

hundred dollars, to be collected as other county char-
ges are, and pay the same over to the commissioners
authorised to build the Bridge, as provided by the act
to which this is a supplement, if in their judgment
any such additional sum be necessary for the building
and completion of said bridge, and that the said

Collected and
paid over.

bridge commissioners are hereby required to account
to the commissioners of Baltimore county, for the faith-
ful application of the money hereby authorized, to be
applied to the building of said bridge, in the same
manner as is provided by the act to which this is a
supplement.

Account requir-
ed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of
rendering it unnecessary for the people of Baltimore
county, to apply to the legislature to pass special acts
to authorize the building of any new bridge, or the re-
pairing of any old bridge, in said county, as the case

To prevent fu-
ture applica-
tions for brid-
ges.

may be, it shall be the duty of the county commission-
ers whenever any application may be made to them for
the purpose of building or repairing any bridge, as
aforesaid, to decide whether the public convenience
requires the same or not, according to the provisions
of an act entitled, an act, to provide more effectually
for the repairing and rebuilding of bridges in Balti-
more county, and for other purposes, passed at Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter
seventy-seven, and the said commissioners are hereby
required to carry the provisions of said act fully into
effect according to the true intent and meaning thereof.

County com-
missioners re-
quired to de-
termine.