JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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judgment the public interest requires it, to provide

free travel over the Patuxent River, at or near Hill's

Bridge.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That when in the judgment

of the aforesaid county commissioners, public inter-

est shall require the aforesaid provision, then they

Purchase
bridge.

may negotiate with the owner or owners of Hill's

Bridge, and purchase and maintain the same as a

public highway free of toll; provided, the price de-

Proviso.

manded would not be a greater sum than it would

take to build a new bridge near the site of the

present one.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That in the event of the

purchase or building of a bridge, that the cost of the

The cost— how
proportioned.

structure shall be divided between Anne Arundel,

Prince George's and Calvert counties, in the follow-

ing1 proportion, that is to say: Anne Arundel shall

bear two-fifths of the cost, Prince George's, two-

fifths, and Calvert one-fifth.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 380.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact several sections of

chapter one hundred and eighty-one, of the acts

passed at the January session of eighteen hundred

and seventy-four, which act repealed article seven-

ty-one, of the Code of Public General Laws, title

"Oysters."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That sections three and five, of chapter
one hundred and eighty-one, of the act passed at

Repealed and
re-enacted.

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four

be, and the same are hereby repealed, and re-enacted

so as to read as follows :