WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly, That the
erecting and making Mill-Dams on Branches, where formerly the
main or public Roads passed, and the Narrowness of such Dams
and the Flood-Gates to the same, have been a great Obstruction and
Hindrance
to Carriage and Travelling on the public Roads: For Remedy whereof,
it is prayed that it may be Enacted;
II. And be it
Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the
Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That where
any Person or
Persons have Built, or shall Build, a Mill or Mills, on any Branch
or Run,
where any public or main Road crossed, or shall cross., and have erected,
or
shall erect, any Dam for such Mill or Mills, such Person or Persons,
or the
Owner, Possessor, or Occupier of such Mill or Mills, shall, and they
are
hereby obliged to make the Top of the said Dam Twelve Feet Wide at
the
least, and make good and sufficient Bridges over the Waste and Race
of the
said Mills and Dams, and the same keep in good Repair: And where
any
Mill, hereafter to be erected, shall obstruct any public Road, and
it shall be
thought convenient by the Justices of the said County Court, where
such
Mill is so erected, that the said public Road shall pass below the
Dam of the
said Mill, or where such public Road now passes below the Dam of any
such
Mill or Mills, that then, and in every such case, the Owner or Owners,
Possessor,
or Occupier of such Mill or Mills, shall, and they are hereby required,
to raise and make a good and sufficient Causeway a-cross the Branch
on which
the said Mill is built, Twelve Feet Wide, and make a good and substantial
Bridge over the Tail of the said Mill, and the same keep in good Repair;
and of the Owner or Owners, Possessor or Occupier, of any such Mill
or
Mills, shall refuse or neglect to do what is by this Act required,
and shall be |
Preamble.
Owners of
Mills built
where the
Main Road
crosses the
Branch, shall
make the
Top of their
Dams 12 Feet
Wide, and
make good
Bridges over
the Waste and
Race, and
keep the same
in Repair.
Where the
Road passes
below the
dam, they
shall make a
Causeway across
the
Branch 12
Feet Wide,
and a good
Bridge over
the Mill Tail,
and keep the
same in Repair. |
