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LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812,

1812.

missioners —
they may em-
ploy work-
men.

directed to assess and levy on the assessable property
of said county, such sum or sums of money (not ex-
ceeding eight hundred dollars) as they in their judg-
ment shall deem sufficient, to build a bridge over the
White Marsh Run in Baltimore county, on the road
leading from Belle Air to the city of Baltimore;
the same when assessed and levied shall be paid unto
Thomas Kell, Philemon Towson and Israel Pearce
who are hereby appointed commissioners to superin-
tend the building of said bridge; and they or a ma-
jority of them shall, and are hereby authorised to
employ a workman or workmen to build the said
bridge and the same complete as soon as possible.

Commission-
ers shall take
bond and secu-
rity from the
workmen.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be
the duty of the said commissioners to take bond or
bonds from the said workman or workmen, in such
penalty and security as the levy court of Baltimore
county shall direct, conditioned for the faithful build-
ing and constructing of said bridge, and that the
said bond shall not be cancelled until said commis-
sioners shall have made report to the levy court of
Baltimore county that said bridge hath been finished
agreeably to contract.

Money ex-
pended — an
account shall
be rendered.

3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That said com-
missioners after the completion of said bridge shall
render a full account to the levy court of Baltimore
county, of all the money expended in 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 said levy court for the use
of said county.

Discretionary
power of the
levy court.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said
commissioners shall have full power and authority, to
have the said bridge erected either at the place where
the old bridge formerly stood or lower down the run, as
to them or a. majority, of them may appear most ad-
visable, and to alter the direction of the road as it
now runs, so as to meet the location of the bridge if
necessary, fixed by the commissioners aforesaid.

CHAPTER 155.

passed Dec.
28, 1812,

Preamble.

An act for the benefit of the Presbyterian congrega-
tion of Queen Ann's and Caroline counties.
WHEREAS, It is represented to this General
Assembly, by the trustees of the Presbyterian con-
gregation of Queen Ann's ana Caroline counties,
that certain lands have been heretofore conveyed by
a certain Thomas Duckery to James Finley and