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Dec Ses. 1817.
Passed Feb 13
Levy for build-
ing bridges.
Court to exa-
mine scite &c.
Plot of road.
Proviso.
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CHAPTER 191.
An act authorising the Levy Court of Baltimore County to
levy a sum of money for repairing and rebuilding certain
Bridges in said County, and for the purposes therein men-
tioned.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the levy court of Baltimore county shall and they are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, to assess and levy on the assessable pro-
perty of said county, such sum as they shall ascertain to be neces-
sary, to repair or rebuild the bridges at Cromwell's Ford, at the
Belle Air Road, and at Patterson's Mills, over the Great Falls of
Gunpowder, and the bridge over the Patapsco Falls at Allen's Mill,
where the old bridge formerly stood, which were injured or des-
troyed by the late flood in those streams, and to appoint some ju-
dicious person or persons to superintend the repairing or rebuilding
the said bridges.
2. And be it enacted, That the said court be and they are hereby
authorised and required, by a committee of their body, or by three
suitable persons to he by them for that purpose appointed, to exa-
mine whether there is not a better and safer site for a bridge over
the Great Falls aforesaid, between the said mills and Ridgely's
Forge, and also examine the suitability of the ground for a road to
and from such site, and if it shall thereupon appear that a bridge
at such upper site would be much more sale, and the- ground would
admit of making a road to and from the same, at such expense as
under all circumstances the said court shall consider reasonable and
proper to ensure the safety of the bridge, and to promote the pub-
lic convenience in travelling, then they shall cause the bridge to be
built at such upper site, and the road to be made to the same, instead
of rebuilding it at the mills aforesaid.
3. And be it enacted, That upon such alteration of the said road
being made, a plot thereof shall be by the said court returned to the
clerk's office of Baltimore county, to be there preserved as other
road plots, and such road, when altered and made, is hereby de-
clared to be a public highway of said county, and the said court
may allow and provide for the defraying such incidental expense*
attending the execution of this act as they shall consider just and
reasonable, to be levied and collected with the expenses of rebuild-
ing said bridges, in the same manner as other county charges, and
paid over to the person or persons entitled to receive the same;
Provided however, that the said court be and they are hereby au-
thorised to suspend all or any proceedings under this act in relation
to the bridge over the Great Falls of Gunpowder, at or near Pat-
terson's Mill, and below Ridgely's Forge, if they shall be of opini-
on that it is expedient so to do.
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Passed Feb 14
Itinerant char-
ges allowed.
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CHAPTER 192.
An act to allow mileage in certain cases to Jurors in Wash-
ington County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
each and every juror summoned on the regular pannel of jurors to
Washington county courts, who shall reside more than ten miles
from the place of holding the said courts, shall in addition to the
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