Turnpike Road Company, passed March tenth,
eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, chapter one
hundred and eighty-six, be and the same is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Authority to
appoint Toll
Gatherers.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said com-
pany having perfected the said road or such parts
thereof, from time to time as aforesaid, and the
same being examined, approved and licensed in
manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for
them to appoint such and so many toll gatherers
as they shall think proper to collect and receive of
and from all and every person or persons using
the said road, the tolls and rates hereinafter men-
tioned, and to stop any person riding, leading or
driving any horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, sulkey
chair, chaise, phaeton, coach, coaches, cart, wagon,
wain, sled or other carriage of pleasure or burden,
from passing through the said gate until they shall
have paid the same; that is to say, for every space of
five miles in length of the said road, the following
sum of money, and so in proportion for any greater
or less distance; that such person or persons shall
use said road for any greater or lesser number of

Rates of toll.

sheep, hogs or cattle, viz: For every score of
sheep, one-eighth of a dollar; for every score of
hogs, one-eighth of a dollar; for every score of
cattle, one-fourth of a dollar for every horse and
his rider or led horse, one-sixteenth of a dollar;
for every chair or chaise, with one horse and two
wheels, one-eighth of a dollar; for every chariot,
coach, stage, wagon, phaeton or chaise, with two
horses and four wheels, one fourth of a dollar;
for every carriage of pleasure, under whatever
name it may go, the like sum, according to the
number of wheels and horses drawing the same;
for every cart or wagon whoso wheels do not ex-
ceed the breadth of four inches, one-eighth of a
dollar for each — drawing the same; for every
cart or wagon whose wheels shall exceed in
breadth four inches and not exceeding seven
inches, one-sixteenth of a dollar for every horse
drawing the same; for every cart or wagon,
the breadth of whoso wheels shall be more
than seven inches and not more than ten inches, or
being of the breadth of seven inches shall roll
more than ten inches, five cents for every horse