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SEC 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the levy courts of Talbot
and Caroline counties be, and they are hereby author-
ised and directed at their first session in the year of
eighteen hundred and thirteen, or as soon thereafter
as they may have notice of this act, each to appoint
three persons of the most wisdom and experience in
their respective counties, whose duty it shall be to
meet at the said bridge on the first Monday in May
next, or as soon thereafter as a majority of the said
persons shall appoint, giving ten days previous no-
tice to the president or some officer of the said bridge
company, of the day on which they intend meeting;
and alter taking the following oath or affirmation,
(as the case may be: ) "J. A. B. do swear or solemn-
ly and sincerely declare and affirm, that I will pro-
ceed to examine the bridge over Choptank river at
Dover ferry, and after a full and fair examination of
the same, determine according to the best of my skill
and judgment, whether the inconveniences complain-
ed of really exist, and if they do exist, what is pro-
per to be done by the president, directors and com-
pany of the said bridge, to obviate or remove the
same and return certificates of the same as directed
by this act, '' shall proceed to examine the draw of the
said bridge through which vessels navigating the ri-
ver must pass; and after a full and fair examination
as aforesaid, taking into view the subject matter of
the parties interested in the premises aforesaid, to
award and determine whether the act authorising the
erecting said bridge has been so carried into effect as
that the rights of individuals, who have a right in com-
mon in all public highways, have been by said com-
pany sufficiently guarded and protected.
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1812.
Levy courts
to appoint per-
sons to exam-
ine the bridge
—their oath.
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2 AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the persons
so appointed, or a majority of them, shall be of opi-
nion that the powers vested in the said company have
been abused by neglecting to provide such facilities
for the safe and speedy navigation of the river afore-
said, as was contemplated by the law authorising the
erecting said bridge, or that the draw is not suffici-
ently wide and spacious, or not in such part of the
bridge as is calculated to afford a safe and speedy na-
vigation as aforesaid, that in such case the persons
so as aforesaid appointed, or a majority of them, shall
make out three certificates, by them signed and seal-
ed, stating their opinion of the inconvenience, (if any)
resulting to navigators, and the cause or causes of
such inconvenience, and the remedy to obviate the
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Certificates
to be returned.
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