ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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'the same shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be
paid accordingly.
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any per-
son or persons shall willfully pull down, break or des-
troy any part of said bridge, or of any abutment,
gate or other property appertaining thereto, or shall
obliterate, deface or destroy the letters or figures in
any list of the rates of tolls affixed in any place for the
information of passengers, or who shall wilfully and
maliciously obstruct or impede the passage over the
said bridge, every person so offending shall forfeit and
pay to the president and directors, a sum not exceeding
twenty dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as
debts of a similar amount are recovered, and shall also
be liable to an action or actions for further damages
if the said sum be not sufficient to repair and satisfy
the damages done.

1812.

Persons wilfully
damaging said
bridge, &c. shall
be fined.

15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said country be, and they are hereby authorised and
directed to levy annually, on the assessable property
of said county, the sum of fifty dollars, to be collected
and paid to the said president and directors, or their
order; which sum shall be applied to raising, widen-
ing and keeping in repair the causeway and road lead-
ing from said bridge to Denton; and the said presi-
dent and directors shall, on or before the first day of
September eighteen hundred and thirteen, cause the
said causeway to be made at least sixteen feet wide,
and of such height as to prevent the ordinary tides
from overflowing it; on failure to complete the said
road and causeway in the manner and within the time
aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred
dollars, for the use of the county; and shall always
thereafter keep the said road and causeway in good re-
pair; and shall, on failure, for every such offence, for-
feit and pay the sum of twenty dollars, one half for the
use of the county, the other half to the person who
shall sue for the same, to be recovered as debts of a
similar amount are recovered.

Levy court di-
rected to assess
a sum of money
on the county;
how to be ap-
plied. Duties
of president
and directors,
and penalty on
non-compli-
ance.

CHAPTER 140.

An act relating to the Hospital in the vicinity of
the city of Baltimore.

Passed Jan. 4,
1812.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As-
sembly by the memorial of Colin M'Kenzie and
James Smyth, attending physicians to the hospital
in the vicinity of Baltimore, that for the want of

Preamble.