| 1814.
CHAP. 71. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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
tolls.
Proviso. |
21. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons whomsoever,
riding in, or driving any sulkey, 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 hogs, sheep or cattle, shall therewith pass through any private
gates or bars, or along or over any passage way, or other ground,
near to or adjoining any turnpike which shall be erected in pursuance
of this act, with an intent to defraud the company, and avoid
the payment of the toll or duty for passing through any such gate
or turnpike, or if any 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 or devise, 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,
of the road on which such fraud shall or may be practised, any
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
twenty dollars, in lieu of damages from 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 in which the forfeiture is incurred, and
for the payment of which the said company shall be responsible. |
Accounts to be
submitted annually
to a general
meeting of stockholders. |
22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president
and managers of
the said company shall keep fair and just accounts of all monies
received by them from the said commissioners, and from the subscribers
to the said undertakings, an account of the several subscriptions,
and of all penalties for delay in payment thereof, and
of the amount of the profits on the shares which may be forfeited
as aforesaid, and also all monies by them expended in the prosecution
of their said work, and shall once at least in every year submit
such account to a general meeting of the stockholders, until
the said road shall be completed, and until the costs, charges and
expense of effecting the same, shall be fully paid and discharged,
and the aggregate amount of such expenses shall be liquidated and
ascertained; and if, upon such liquidation, or when the capital
stock of the said company shall be nearly expended, it shall be
found that the said capital stock will be insufficient to complete the
said road according to the true intent and meaning of this act, it
shall and may be lawful for the said president, managers and company,
at a stated or special meeting to be convened according to
the provisions of this act, or their own by-laws, to increase their |
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