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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
with the most convenient and practicable ground, from the burnt
mill aforesaid to the nearest western navigation; and if the proprietor
or proprietors of any ground through which the said road
may pass shall require a compensation for the same, and should be
unable to agree with the president, managers and company, or their
agent, for the price of the same, such proprietor or proprietors shall
apply to the court of the county in which the land lies, whose duty
it shall be to direct the sheriff of their county to summon twelve
freeholders, unconnected with the person or persons owning the
ground, and disinterested in the shares of the Allegany turnpike
road company, who shall view and assess the value of the ground
aforesaid, and damages, which assessment shall be paid by the president,
managers and company, or their agent, before the said road
shall be opened through said ground. |
1801.
CHAP. 45. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president,
managers and
company, shall have power to erect permanent bridges over all waters
crossing the said rout or tract, wherever the same shall be
found necessary, and shall cause a road to be laid out forty feet
wide, twenty feet at least whereof shall be made an artificial road,
which shall be bedded with wood, stone, gravel, or some other hard
substance, well compacted together, a sufficient depth to secure a
solid foundation to the same. |
Bridges may be
erected over waters
crossing said
routs. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
having cut
out, dug and bridged, the said road, so as to make it convenient and
easy for carriages of burthen to travel the same, may erect two
gates, one of which shall be within three miles of each end of the
road, at which it shall and may be lawful for them to appoint such
and so many toll-gatheres as they may think proper, to collect and
receive of and from all and every person or persons using the said
road, the tolls and rates herein after mentioned, and to stop any
person riding, leading or driving, any horses, hogs, cattle, sheep,
sulky, chair, cart, wagon, sleigh, or any other carriage of burthen
or pleasure, from passing through the said gates or turnpike, until
they shall have respectively paid the same; that is to say, at each
gate the following sums of money, and so in proportion for any
greater or lesser number of cattle, sheep or hogs, viz. For every
score of hogs, ten cents; for every score of sheep, ten cents; for
every score of cattle, twenty cents; for each person travelling on
horseback, six cents; for every horse led or driven, four cents; for
every carriage with two wheels, fifteen cents; for every carriage
with four wheels, and drawn by not more than two horses,
twenty-five cents; for every carriage of four wheels, and drawn by
more than two horses, thirty cents; and for every sleigh or slide,
six cents for each horse drawing the same. |
Company may
erect toll-gates--
appoint toll-gatherers
--Rates. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all such carriages
as aforesaid
to be drawn by oxen, or partly by oxen and partly by horses or by
mules, the same rates of tolls shall be charged as if the whole were
drawn by horses. |
Carriages drawn
by oxen to be
charged as if
drawn by horses. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the term of four
years to be allowed
the aforesaid company for completing the aforesaid road, and
when the said road shall be completed, by being bedded with stone,
wood, gravel, or some other hard substance, well compacted together,
of a sufficient depth to make a solid foundation, it shall and
may be lawful for the aforesaid company to demand and receive |
Four years allowed
for completing
road. |
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