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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
use of the county, and the other half for the person who shall sue
for the same, and may be presented by the grand jury, and fined a
sum not exceeding twenty dollars, in the discretion of the court. |
1811.
CHAP. 139. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors
shall keep a just and true account of all monies received by their
several and respective collectors of tolls for crossing said bridge,
and of the monies received from the county; and shall make and
declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof among all the
stockholders, first deducting therefrom all contingent costs and
charges, and such proportions of the said income as they may deem
necessary for keeping said bridge in repair; and shall, on every
first Monday in January and July in every year, publish the dividend
so made, and of the time and place where the same shall be
paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. |
Accounts of monies
received for
toll to be kept. Dividends. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
wilfully pull down, break or destroy, any part of said bridge, or of
any abutment, gate, or other property appertaining thereto, or shall
obliterate, deface or destroy, the letters or figures in any list of the
rates of tolls affixed in any place for the information of passengers,
or who shall wilfully and maliciously obstruct or impede the passage
over the said bridge, every person so offending shall forfeit
and pay to the president and directors a sum not exceeding twenty
dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as debts of a similar
amount are recovered, and shall also be liable to an action or actions
for further damages if the said sum be not sufficient to repair
and satisfy the damages done. |
Penalty on persons
damaging
bridge, &c. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said county be
and they are hereby authorised and directed, to levy annually, on
the assessable property of said county, the sum of fifty dollars, to
be collected and paid to the said president and directors, or their
order; which sum shall be applied to raising, widening and keeping
in repair the causeway and road leading from said bridge to Denton;
and the said president and directors shall, on or before the
first day of September eighteen hundred and thirteen, cause the
said causeway to be made at least sixteen feet wide, and of such
height as to prevent the ordinary tides from overflowing it; on
failure to complete the said road and causeway in the manner and
within the time aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred
dollars, for the use of the county; and shall always thereafter
keep the said road and causeway in good repair, and shall, on
failure, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty
dollars, one half for the use of the county, the other half to the
person who shall sue for the same, to be recovered as debt of a
similar
amount are recovered. |
Levy authorised
for keeping in repair
causeway and
road, &c. |
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CHAP. CXL.
An Act relating to the Hospital in the Vicinity of the City of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 169.
See 1797, ch. 102; 1808, ch. 106; 1816, ch. 156. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly
by the memorial
of Colin McKenzie and James Smyth, attending physicians
to the hospital in the vicinity of Baltimore, that for the want of
funds, the buildings connected with the said institution remain in
an unfinished state, in consequence whereof, the benevolent objects |
Preamble. |
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