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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the said road, as will be necessary and sufficient to collect the tolls
and duties herein after granted to the said company, from all persons
travelling on the same with horses, cattle, wagons, carts and
carriages. |
1814.
CHAP. 71. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
having perfected
the said road, or such parts thereof from time to time as
aforesaid, and the same being examined, approved and licensed,
in manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for them to appoint
such and so many toll-gatherers as they shall think proper, to collect
and receive of and from all and every person or persons using
the said road, the tolls and rates hereinafter mentioned, and to stop
any person riding, leading or driving, any horses, cattle, hogs,
sheep, sulkey, chair, chaise, phæton, coach, coachee, cart, wagon,
wain, sleigh, sled or other carriage of pleasure or burthen, from
passing through the said gate or turnpike, until they shall have
paid the same; that is to say, for every space of ten miles in length
of the said road, the following sum of money, and so in proportion
for any greater or lesser distance, or for any greater or lesser
number of sheep, hogs or cattle, viz. For every score of sheep, one
eighth of a dollar; for every score of hogs, one eighth of a dollar;
for every score of cattle, one fourth of a dollar; for every horse and
his rider, or led horse, one sixteenth of a dollar; for every chair
or chaise with one horse and two wheels, one eighth of a dollar;
for every chariot, coach, stage, wagon, phæton or chaise, with two
horses and four wheels, one quarter of a dollar; for every other
carriage of pleasure, under whatsoever name it may go, the like
sums, according to the number of wheels and horses drawing the
same; for every cart or wagon, whose wheels do not exceed the
breadth of four inches, one eighth of a dollar for each horse drawing
the same; for every cart or wagon, whose wheels shall exceed
in breadth four inches, and not exceeding seven inches, one sixteenth
of a dollar for every horse drawing the same; for every cart
or wagon, the breadth of whose wheels shall be more than seven
inches and not more than ten inches, or being the breadth of seven
inches shall roll more than ten inches, five cents for every horse
drawing the same; for every cart or wagon, the breadth of whose
wheels shall be more than ten inches and not exceeding twelve
inches, or being ten inches shall roll more than fifteen inches, three
cents for every horse drawing the same; for every cart or wagon
the breadth of whose wheels shall be more than twelve inches, two
cents for every horse drawing the same. |
Toll gatherers to
be appointed.
Rates of toll. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of ascertaining
the weight that may be drawn along the said road in any cart,
wagon or other carriage of burthen, it shall and may be lawful for
the said president, managers and company, to erect and establish
scales and weights at or near such and so many of the gates erected,
or to be erected, in pursuance of this act, as they may think
proper; and where there may seem reasonable cause to suspect that
any cart, wagon or other carriage of burthen, carries a greater
weight than is or shall be by law allowable, it shall be lawful for
the toll-gatherers, or other persons in their service or employment,
to prevent the same from passing such gate or turnpike until such
cart, wagon, or other carriage of burthen, shall be drawn into the
fixed or erected scales at or near any such gate or turnpike, and |
Scales to be erected
to ascertain
weight drawn along
road in wagons,
&c. |
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