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not exceeding eight hundred dollars; and in case the collector shall
refuse or neglect to pay the same, the said commissioners shall
have the same remedy for recovering the same as is prescribed by
the act, entitled, An act for the speedy recovery of monies levied
or received by sheriffs and collectors, passed November session
seventeen hundred and ninety-seven; Provided, that before the said
commissioners for building either of said bridges shall be entitled
to receive any money levied in virtue of this act, they shall enter
into bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of double the
sum to be levied for their use in the respective counties of Prince-
George's and Anne-Arundel, for the faithful discharge of their du-
ties as commissioners for building the bridge to which they are ap-
pointed, which said bonds shall be lodged with the clerks of the
county courts of Prince-George's and Anne-Arundel counties re-
spectively, and may be sued as any public bonds now are, and a cer-
tified copy of said bonds, under the seal of either of the county
clerks aforesaid, shall be evidence in any court of law or equity in
this state.
2. And be it enacted, That the following persons are appointed
commissioners for building said bridges, to wit: For building the
bridge at Queen-Anne, Joseph W. Claggett and Samuel Tyler, of
Prince-George's county, and Joseph N. Stockett and James Sanders
of Anne-Arundel county; for building the bridge at the Ford call-
ed the Governor's Bridge, Dennis Boyd and George Tyler, of
Prince-George's county, and James Iglehart and Thomas Hodges,
of Anne-Arundel county; and for building the bridge at the Priest's
Ford, Benjamin Ogle and William Bowie, of Prince-George's
county, and Thomas W. Hall and John Duvall, (of Marsh) of
Anne-Arundel county; and the said commissioners, or a majority
of those appointed for the purpose of building each of said bridges,
are authorised and empowered, as soon as may be convenient, to
cause the said bridges to be built of sound and good materials, and
completed in the best and most substantial manner; and they, or a
majority of them, are by this act fully authorised and empowered,
to agree with a contractor or contractors for each of said bridges,
or they may purchase materials, and hire workmen and labourers to
complete the same, as they in their discretion may think best, and
in either case the said bridge or bridges shall be built and complet-
ed under the immediate direction and superintendence of the said
commissioners or a majority of them.
3. And be it enacted, That if either of said commissioners shall
die, or remove out of the county in which he is a commissioner,
before the completion of the bridge for the purpose of building
which he is appointed a commissioner, or shall refuse to act, the
commissioner who shall have been appointed to act with him may
appoint some other person resident of the county in which he was
a commissioner to act in his place, and the person so appointed
shall have the same powers and authorities as are vested in the said
commissioners by this act.
4. And be it enacted, That the paid commissioners appointed to
each of said bridges, or one of them, shall render to the justices
of the levy courts of the said counties respectively, at their levy
courts next after the expenditure of said monies, a true, full and
fair account of all the money by them laid out and expended by vir-
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Dec. Ses. 1817
Provisos.
Comm'rs ap-
pointed.
Vacancies.
To rentier to
levy courts ac-
count of mo-
nies expended.
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