| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 78. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
company should neglect to have the said placed repaired within fifteen
days after the aforesaid fine shall have been laid, then the said
court shall proceed to fine the said president, managers and company,
in their discretion, not exceeding two hundred dollars, for the
use of the county under the direction of the levy court. |
Penalty for evading
payment of
toll.
Provisos. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons whomsoever,
riding in, or driving any sulky, chair or chaise, phæton,
cart, wagon, wain, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of burthen or
pleasure, riding or leading any horse, mare or gelding, or driving
any sheep, hogs or cattle, shall therewith pass through any private
gate or bars, or along or over any private passage way or other
ground near to or adjoining any turnpike gate erected, or which shall
be erected in pursuance of this act, with intent to defraud the company,
avoid the payment of the toll or duty for passing through any
such gate or turnpike, or if any such person or persons shall, with
such intent, take off, or cause to be taken off, any horse, mare or
gelding, or other cattle, from any wagon or carriage of burthen or
pleasure, or practice any other fraudulent means of device, with
the intent that the payment of any such tolls or duty may be evaded
or lessened, all and every person or persons, in all, every, or any of
the ways or manners aforesaid offending, shall for every such offence
respectively, forfeit and pay to the said president, managers and company,
a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be sued for and recovered,
with costs of suit, before any justice of the peace, in like manner as
debts of a similar amount may be sued for and recovered; Provided
always, that if any person or persons shall be prosecuted under this
section, and the said prosecution shall not be sustained on the part of
the prosecutor, then and in such case the person or persons prosecuted
as aforesaid, shall receive from the company the sum of ten dollars,
in lieu of damages for delay and vexatious prosecution, recoverable
as other fines under this act; and if any toll-gatherer shall
knowingly demand and receive any greater toll, from any person
or persons, than such toll-gatherer is authorised to demand and receive
by virtue of this act, such toll-gatherer shall forfeit and pay
the sum of twenty dollars for every such offence, to the use of the
county, and for the payment of which the said company shall be
responsible; And provided also, that if any person occupying a
farm or lot on the said road, or on adjoining to which a toll-gate
may be erected, shall have ingress and egress to and from the said
turnpike road, from and to the said farm or lot, in as many places
as he or she may find convenient, without contravening any of the
provisions of this act. |
Posts, board and
index hands to be
erected—penalty
for destroying
them. |
28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall cause
posts to be erected and continued at the intersection of every public
road falling into and leading out of the said turnpike road,
with a board and index hand pointing to the direction of such
roads, on both sides whereof shall be inscribed, in legible characters,
the name of the town, village or place, to which such road
leads, and the distance thereof in computed miles; and the
said company shall cause mile-stones to be placed at the side
road, expressing the number of miles from the capitol, whereon
shall be marked in plain legible characters the respective number
of miles which each stone is distant from the city of Baltimore
aforesaid; and at every gate or turnpike by them to be fixed on the |
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