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Dec. Ses. 1816.
Bridge to be
kept in repair,
&c.
Appointment
of officers.
Parts of an act
repealed.
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the face of it bo negotiable or payable at the said bank, notice
given at the bank, by any officer thereof, or by a notary, that such
note hath become due, or that it is unpaid, shall be to all intents
and purposes held and considered as sufficient to bind the drawer,
acceptor, and endorsers of such note or bill, as if notice had been
personally served on each of them.
3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said pre-
sident and directors, and they are hereby authorised, out of the
funds of said company, to cause the bridge now erecting by them,
over the Susquehanna, after the same shall be completed, to he
kept at all times in sufficient repair, so as to be convenient and sale
for passengers and carriages passing over the same; and if the
said president and directors shall permit the said bridge, or any
part thereof, to be out of repair, alter reasonable notice, and
shall thereof be convict on indictment before the county court
of Harford or Cecil county, the Susquehanna Bridge and Bank
Company shall forfeit and pay such sum, not exceeding one
thousand dollars to the use of such county, as the court before
whom such indictment shall be tried shall adjudge.
4. And be it enacted, That the president and directors of the
Susquehanna Bridge and Bank Company aforesaid, shall have
power, and they are hereby authorised to appoint, such and so
many officers and agents as they, or a majority of them, shall
deem necessary for the erection and preservation and improve-
ment of said bridge, and for attending to conducting and transact-
ing the affairs and business of said company, which the said presi-
dent and directors may lawfully do, or cause to be done, and
pass such orders, rules and by-laws, as the said president and
directors shall deem necessary, for the direction, regulation, and
government of the said officers and agents, and for carrying
into effect the several powers vested in the said president and
directors, and performing the duties which they are authorised
to perform.
5. And be it enacted, That the twenty-first section, and the
twenty-fourth section, of the act, entitled, A supplement to the
act, entitled, An act to incorporate a company for the purpose
of building a bridge over the river Susquehanna, near Rock
Run, shall be and the same two sections are hereby repealed.
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Passed Feb. 1.
Part of an act
repealed.
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CHAPTER 176.
A Supplement to the Act, entitled, An act for making cer-
tain Roads in Baltimore and Harford Counties.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the tenth section of the act, entitled, An act for making
certain roads in Baltimore and Harford counties, passed at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and fifteen, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
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