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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

teen hundred and fifty-two, chapter three hundred

and sixteen, entitled an act to authorize the appoint-

ment of a commissioner to take testimony, to pro-

vide for the recording of copies of wills and other

papers of which the originals were lost by the burn-

ing of the Court House in Dorchester county, and to

remedy, as far as practicable, the evils likely to ensue

from the destruction of the records of said county,

be and the same is hereby continued in force until

the first day of January, eighteen hundred and

eighty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 376.

AN ACT to establish a free bridge over the Patapsco

River, between Anne Arundel and Baltimore

counties, on or near the present site of Sweetzer's

Bridge.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Anne

Authorized,
directed and

Arundel county, and they are hereby authorized,

required.

directed and required to purchase from its owners

the bridge over the Patapsco River, known as

" Sweetzer's Bridge," some time prior to the first

day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, upon

such terms and conditions as to them may appear

most judicious, and to maintain and keep the same

Proviso.

in repair as a free bridge; provided, that the entire

cost of said bridge, together with all the necesssary

lands, causeways, abutments, buildings or other ap-

purtenances, shall not exceed the sum of twelve

thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the said

County Commissioners of Anne Arundel county