170

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1812

sum on the
county, to be
paid to the
commissioners
herein appoint-
ed.

be, and they are hereby authorised and directed to
assess and levy on the assessable property of said
county, such sum or sums of money. as they in their
judgment shall deem sufficient to build a bridge over
the Great Falls of Gunpowder river, on the post-road
leading from Baltimore to Philadelphia; and the same
When assessed and levied, shall be paid unto Tobias
E Stansbury, John Buck, Annanias Diviss, John B.
Haward and Jeremiah Ford, who are hereby appoint-
ed commissioners to superintend the building of said
bridge; and they, or a majority of them, shall, and are
hereby authorised to employ a workman or workmen to
build the said bridge, and have the same completed as
soon as possible.

Bonds shall be
given to the
commissioners
by the work-
men.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said commissioners to take bond or bonds
from said workman or workmen, in such penal-
ty and with such security as the levy court of Balti-
more county shall direct, conditioned for the faithful
building and constructing of said bridge, and that the
materials thereof shall be strong, sound and substan-
tial, and that said bond shall not be cancelled until said
commissioners shall have made report to the levy
court of Baltimore county, that said bridge hath been
finished agreeably to contract.

Commissioners
shall render an
account to the
court, of monies
expended,, &c.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That said commis-
sioners, after the completion of said bridge, shall
render a full account to the levy court of Baltimore
county, of all the money expended in the building the
said bridge; and the money remaining in their hands,
not expended (if any, ) after the completion of the same,
shall be returned to the said levy court for the use of
said county.

CHAPTER 171

Passed Jan. 4,
1812.

A Supplement to an act entitled, An act for regu-
lating Writs of Error and granting Appeals
from and to the Courts of Common Law within
this province.

Persons desir-
ous of appealing
from the judg-
ments rendered
in county courts
may, within a
certain time,
direct the clerk
to enter an ap-
peal from said
judgment.

BE IT ENACTED ly the General Assembly of
Maryland, That any person or persons against whom
any judgment hath been or shall be rendered in any
county court of this state, or any person in his, her or
their behalf, being desirous of appealing from such
judgment to the court of Appeals of the Shore, may at
any time within the period prescribed by law for enter-
ing appeals, instead of prosecuting a writ of error for
the removal of the said judgment, apply to the clerk