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SAMUEL STEVENS, JR. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822

a creditor or creditors. may file against him on his application under
this law.

Passed Jan.
7, 1823.

Elections.

CHAPTER 103.

An additional supplement to the act, entitled, "An act to incorporate a
company for erecting a bridge over Chester river, at Chester Town.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General As-sembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for the stockholders in said company
to meet on the third Monday of December, eighteen hundred and
twenty-three, and on the third Monday of December in every year
thereafter, at the Court House in Chester Town, and then and there,
between the hours of eleven o'clock in the forenoon and two o'clock
in the afternoon, to elect by ballot nine directors from amongst the
stockholders; and if at anytime the stockholders shall fail or neglect
to make the said election, as herein above directed, that the said cor-
poration shall not for that cause be dissolved, but it shall be lawful to
hold the election on any other day, of which ten days public notice
shall be given by the president and directors for the time being; and
the directors who shall have been previously elected, shall continue
to be directors, until other directors shall be legally chosen.

Elections
confirmed.

2. And be it enacted, That the several elections of directors here-
tofore made by the said stockholders, and the acts and proceedings
of the said company, and the officers thereof, shall be deemed and
considered as valid and effectual in law, as if the election had been
held annually on the same day and month on which the first election
of directors was held; and the persons now acting as president and
directors of said company, shall continue to act as such until an elec-
tion of directors shall take place in virtue of the provisions of this act.

Tolls.

3. And be it enacted, That the said company shall and may receive
the following tolls for passing the said bridge, instead of the tolls now
received; that is to say, for every foot passenger, six and a quartet-
cents; for every person on horseback, twelve and a half cents; for
every carriage, cart, or waggon, with four horses, or oxen, including
passengers, eighty-seven and a half cents; for every carriage, cart, or
waggon, with two horses, or oxen, including passengers, seventy-live
cents; for every carriage, cart, or waggon, with one horse, including
passengers, thirty-seven and a half cents; for every horse and each
head of black cattle, six and a fourth cents; for every head of hogs or
sheep, three cents.

Condition.

4. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be previously accepted
by the said company, and their acceptance thereof entered on the
journals or minutes of proceedings, then the same shall commence
and be in force from the first day of March, eighteen hundred and
twenty-three.

Passed Jan.
10, 1823

Preamble.

CHAPTER 104.

A supplement to the act, entitled, "An act to provide for the recording
of certain deeds and other papers.
Whereas it has been found that the period limited by law for the
recording deeds, or other instruments of writing, has expired in the
interval between the death of a clerk of the county and the qualifica-
tion of a successor, for remedy whereof,

Case of va-

cancy.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That whenever
it may be necessary to record any deed, conveyance, or other instru-
ment of writing, within a limited period, and the clerk of the county
court, in whose office it may be proper to record the same, shall die