T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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for the passage of stock of all kind without demand
or payment of toll.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That to prevent de-
lay to vessels in passing through the draw of said
Bridge, it shall and may be lawful for the County
Commissioners of Kent and Queen Anne's counties
to levy annually on their respective counties a sum
of money not exceeding seventy five dollars, and to
employ and pay therewith some suitable person to at-
tend each and every day, from sun rise to sun set, to
open the draw for the passage of vessels, and if the
person so employed shall fail to discharge the trust
reposed in him, he shall be liable to be sued before
any justice of the peace of the county in which he
shall reside, in an action of debt by any person ag-
grieved, who upon giving satisfactory proof of such
failure, shall recover the sum of twenty dollars in ad-
dition to the costs.

To prevent
delay at draw.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the County Com-
missioners for the said counties be and they are
hereby required to levy annually on their respective
counties a sufficient sum to defray one half the ex-
pense of keeping said Bridge in a state of thorough
repair, and may separately employ some person or
persons to superintend said repairs, who shall render
an account of such repairs to the County Commis-
sioners so employing him or them, or they may agree
jointly upon the same superintendent, in which case
the person so appointed shall render an account of
said repairs to the County Commissioners, of each
of said counties.

Authorised to
levy.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That in case the County
Commissioners of either, or both of said counties,
shall conceive that the person or persons contracting
to build said Bridge has failed in any manner to per-
form his contract, it shall be lawful for them, or either
of them, to withhold the money contracted to be paid,
until the said contract shall have been complied
with, and they, or either of them, shall also be at lib-
erty to bring an action in their respective counties
on the bond of said contractor, or a copy thereof, un-
der the hand of the Clerk of either of said County
Commissioners, and the extent of the recovery shall
be the damages sustained by the people of said
county in which the said suit is brought, and said
action shall be tried at the first term of the court at
which said suit is brought, and no other notice
thereof shall be necessary, except a written notice set

May withhold
money con-
tracted to be
paid.