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Payment of
toll.
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pike Road Company of Frederick County, State of Maryland, be
and is hereby authorized and empowered, as to the whole extent
of their road between the termini thereof, to assess annually
upon each individual or person habitually using their said road
between the toll gates thereof, and not passing or going through
any of such toll gates, such amount, to be paid quarterly by the
individual or person so assessed, as shall be just and reasonable
for such use of said road, and shall have power to collect the
same before any justice of the peace of the county in which
such individual may reside or do business, on an action of
debt; provided, that such assessment shall only be construed
to extend to the use of said .road by said parties so assessed, at
such times or trips as they shall not pass through any toll gate
on said road; and that whenever any such parties so assessed
shall pass through any such toll gate, they shall be chargeable
with the regular rates of toll; and provided, that no person
passing from part of his farm to another part thereof shall be
charged with toll.
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Avoiding the
payment of
toll.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
whomsoever, riding or driving any animal or thing for which
tolls are prescribed by the act incorporating this company,
shall pass through any private gate or bar, passage-way or
other ground, or having traveled over a part of the road of
this company with a team of horses or other animals for which
tolls are prescribed, shall, when approaching a toll gate of said
company, detach a part thereof, with the intent to defraud the
said company or avoid the payment of the toll or duty for
passing through any of its gates or over its turnpike, such
person or persons, in all or any of the ways or means so
offending, shall, for every such offence, respectively, forfeit
and pay to said company any sum, not less than two nor more
than tive dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with cost of
suit, before any justice of. the peace of the county wherein
such party offending may reside or do business, in like manner
as debts of a similar amount may be sued for and recovered,
and with the same right of appeal as in such cases.
Approved April 6th, 1894.
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