LAWS OF MARYLAND,

ADJOURNED SESSION.

1835.

CHAPTER 345.

CHAP. 345.

Al act to provide for building a Bridge over the Long

Passed May j30,1836

Marsh Branch, at the place called the Sleeper.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General,

Preamble

Assembly of Maryland, by the petition of sundry citi-

zens of Queen Ann's and Caroline counties, that it

would be to the mutual benefit and convenience of the

people of said counties, if a bridge was built ever the

Long Marsh Branch, at the place called the Sleeper:

Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Levy directed

Maryland, That the Levy Courts of Queen Ann's and

Caroline counties, be, and they are hereby authorised

and required to assess and levy the sum of one hundred

and fifty dollars, on the assessable property in each of

their respective counties, at the time of levying their

next county rates, together with the commissions for

collecting the same, which said assessment shall be

Payment over

made, levied, collected and paid to the commissioners

hereinafter appointed or to their order, as soon as

the same shall heroine payable in law, and in case the

collector shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, the

said commissioners shall have the same remedy for re-

covering the said sum as is prescribed by the act, enti-

tled, an act for the speedy recovery of monies levied or

received by sheriffs and collectors, passed at Novem-

ber session, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That John B. Thomas,

Commisioners to

and Joseph K. Cook, of Queen Anns' county, and

contract and

build, &c.

Joseph C. Talbot and Jacob W. Gibson, of Caroline