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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
all the costs, charges and expenses, for effecting the same, shall
be fully paid and discharged, and the aggregate amount of all such
expenses shall be liquidated and ascertained; and if, after the said
bridge is completed, it shall be found that more monies shall remain
in the hands of the treasurer than is necessary for the payment of
all charges and expenses incurred in and about erecting the said
bridge, the surplus shall be returned as part of the dividend due and
payable to the stockholders respectively. |
1810.
CHAP. 112. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bridge
shall be built in
the most secure and substantial manner, and shall be secured and
supported at each end by good and sufficient abutments, or piers,
and shall not be less than eighteen feet wide, with railing on each
side thereof at least four feet high, and there shall be a draw in the
said bridge so as to afford a convenient passage to vessels up and
down the said river, of at least twenty-four feet wide, and the president
and directors, for the time being, shall keep a sufficient number
of hands at all times ready for the purpose of raising the said
draw, in order to admit vessels to pass through without delay or
interruption; they shall have buoys fixed on each side of said draw
with ropes sufficient to warp vessels through whenever the winds
or current may render it necessary, for which no reward shall be
demanded or received; and in case of any neglect, the said president
and directors may be indicted and fined in Talbot or Caroline
county courts as for a common nuisance.
See November 1812, ch. 140. |
Bridge, how to be
built, &c. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for and in consideration
of the
great risk and expenses to be incurred by said company, not only
for building said bridge, but for keeping the same in continual
repair, the said bridge, when built and completed according to the
directions of this act, and all its profits, shall be and the same
are
hereby vested in the said company for ever, to be held as tenants
in common, in proportion to their respective shares; and it shall and
may be lawful for the said directors, at all times hereafter, to demand
and receive the following tolls, to wit: For every coach, chariot,
or other four-wheeled carriage, stage or wagon, thirty-seven
and a half cents; for every two-wheeled carriage or cart of every
description, eighteen and three-fourths cents; for man and horse,
ten cents; for every horse or mule, six and one-fourth cents; for
every foot passenger, six and one-fourth cents; for every head of
horned cattle, three cents; for every sheep or hog, two cents; which
rates of tolls shall at all times be made public, and kept in some
convenient place for the inspection of passengers.
By 1815, ch. 122, the president and
directors may contract with the levy court
of Caroline county for the passage of the citizens of the said county over
the
bridge, &c. |
Bridge vested in
company for ever. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said president
and directors,
or their successors, or any person by their authority, shall
demand or receive any greater rates or tolls for passing over the
said bridge than is herein before allowed, or shall neglect to keep
the said bridge in good repair for the space of ten days at any one
time, they so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit and
pay the sum of thirty dollars, one half thereof for the use of Talbot
and Caroline counties respectively, and the other half for the
use of the person who may sue for the same, provided that no suit |
Penalty for receiving
greater toll
than by this act
allowed. |
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