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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
said road, shall cause the distance from Baltimore, and the distance
from the nearest gates or turnpikes in each direction, to be
marked in legible characters, designating the number of miles, and
fractions of a mile, on the said gates, or some other conspicuous
place, for the information of travellers and others using the said
road; and if any person shall wilfully destroy the said posts,
boards, index hands, or mile-stones, or deface the directions
made on the said gates, or other conspicuous places as aforesaid,
or shall without permission of the acting superintendant
of the said road, throw out upon the road, or within the limits
of the road, and suffer to remain for the space of one day, any
mould, dirt, weeds, or rubbish of any kind, such person being convicted
thereof by the evidence of one or more credible disinterested
witnesses, before any justice of the peace of the county, he or she
shall be adjudged by the said justice to pay a fine not exceeding
ten dollars, to be recovered with costs, as sums of a similar amount
are recoverable; which fine, when recovered, shall be paid to the
treasurer of the company, for the use of the said company. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 78. |
29. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all wagoners and
drivers of
carriages of all kinds, whether of burthen or pleasure, using the
said road, shall, except when passing by a carriage of slower
draught, keep their horses and carriages on the right hand side of
the road in the passing direction, leaving the other side of the said
road free and clear for other carriages to pass and repass; and if
any driver shall offend against this provision, he shall forfeit and
pay the sum of five dollars to any person who shall be obstructed
in his passage and will sue for the same, to be recovered with costs,
before any justice, in the same manner that debts of a similar
amount are recovered. |
Wagoners, &c. to
keep right hand
side in a passing
direction. |
30. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for the
said company to ask, demand or receive, of or from any person or
persons living on or adjacent to the said road, within three miles
of any of the said gates or turnpikes, any toll for passing the said
gate more than once in twenty four hours. |
Persons living adjacent
to road—
their toll. |
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and managers
of the said turnpike road, for the time being, shall and may, and
they are hereby authorised and empowered to grant, demise and to
farm-let, to any person or persons with whom they can agree, the
tolls and duties which they, by virtue of this act or their own by-laws
are authorised to demand and receive for passage in, upon
and along the said road, at any such gate or turnpike, over or upon
the same, or any part of the same, for any term not exceeding seven
years, under such rents, reservations and conditions, as the
said president and managers at any meeting of their board shall
agree upon, which grants and demises shall have the construction,
force and effect, as other like grants and demises made between
private persons have and receive at law. |
President and directors
empowered
to grant, demise,
&c. tolls &
duties. |
32. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the before
mentioned company
shall not proceed to carry on the said work within two years
from the passing of this act, and shall not complete the same in ten
years thereafter, the right of the said company shall revert to the
state. |
If work is not
completed in ten
years, right to revert
to state. |
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