CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampton) Esq; Governor.

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ten or printed list of the rates or tolls affixed, or to be fixed in
any place or places for the information of passengers and oth-
ers, or who shall wilfully and maliciously obstruct or impede
the passage on or over the said bridge, or any part or parts
thereof, he she or they so offending, shall, and each of them
shall forfeit and pay to the said president directors and compa-
ny, not exceeding the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace in like manner, and subject to
the same rules and regulations, as debts under fifty dollars may
be recovered; and he she or they so offending, may and shall
remain liable to actions at the suit of the said president and di-
rectors for further damages for such offence, if the said sum or
sums herein mentioned be not sufficient to repair and satisfy
such damages.
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said managers
shall have power to condemn and pay for such ground as may
be necessary for the scite of the said bridge, for a toll house,
and for a road or roads leading to the said bridge; Provided
always, that if any person or persons shall conceive themselves
aggrieved the said ground shall be assessed and valued by three
persons to be chosen one by the managers, one by the proprie-
tors of the property, and those two to choose a third, whose
decision shall be final.
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the stock of the said
company may be transferred by the holder in person or by
power of attorney, but all debts actually due to the company
by a stockholder offering to transfer must be discharged be-
fore the transfer shall be made. This act and every part thereof
to be of no effect unless an act shall be passed by the legisla-
ture of Virginia upon similar principles.
15.. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the governor of this
state be, and he is hereby requested to cause a certified copy of
this act to be transmitted to the governor of Virginia, with a
request that he will lay the same before the legislature thereof.

Dec. SESS.
1815.

Tollhouse.

Proviso.

Transfers.

Certified

copy.

CHAPTER 34.

An act for the improvement of McClure's Dock in the City of
Baltimore.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That William Patterson, James Ogleby, John
Strieker, Henry Payson, James- Mosher, William Lorman,
August I. Schwartze, Thomas Tenant and Levi Hollings-
worth, shall be commissioners, who shall have power to cause
the dock called McClure's Dock in the city of Baltimore, to
be extended northwardly in their discretion, not beyond the south
side of Pratt Street, to be widened to such width as they shall
judge proper, not beyond the walls of the buildings at present
erected adjoining the dock, without the consent of the respec-
tive proprietors, and to be deepened to such depth as they think
necessary, by making a dam and drawing out, the water of said,
dock or in any other manner they shall think proper; and said
commissioners shall have power to cut into the grounds or im-
provements, and remove or take down the wharves or walls on
cither side of said dock, and to abutt a dam thereto if they shall
find the same necessary in carrying on their operations; Pro-
vided, that they reinstate and replace the same in as perfect
and substantial a manner as they were in previous thereto;

Passed Jan.
1, 1816.

Commission-
ers—dock to
be extended.

Proviso.