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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and fined in manner and form as is prescribed by the said fifteenth
section. |
Sections of former
law made applicable. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the nineteenth,
twenty-first, twenty-second,
twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-eighth sections
of the aforesaid act, shall extend and be applied to the said company
incorporated by the name of The President, Managers and
Company, of the New-Castle and French-Town Turnpike, and to
their officers, agents and servants, and to all other person or persons
whatever, to all intents and purposes as if the same were inserted
and particularly mentioned in this act. |
Penalty on persons
for evading payment
of tolls. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons, owning,
riding or driving, any carriage of burthen or pleasure, or owning,
riding, leading or driving, any horse, mule or ox, or driving any
hogs, sheep or cattle, and shall, with an intent to evade or defraud
the said company of the tolls, pass therewith through any gate or
bar, or along or over any other private passage way, or along or
over any ground or land near to or adjoining any turnpike or gate
which shall be erected in pursuance of this act, or if any person
or persons shall with the intent aforesaid take off, or cause to be
taken off, any horse or other beast or cattle of draught or burthen
from any carriage or burthen of pleasure, or shall practice any
other fraudulent measure or devise with intent to evade or lessen
the payment of any such toll or duty, all and every such person or
persons, offending in manner aforesaid, shall for every such offence
respectively forfeit and pay to the said company the sum of
fifteen dollars, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suit before
any justice of the peace, as debt of the same amount are recovered
by the laws of this state. |
Annual contracts
for tolls, &c. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person or
persons who
shall prefer an annual contract for the use of the said road shall be
entitled for himself or herself, and his or her family, to all the
benefits of the same, except as to stages and carriages for the conveyance
of persons for hire, and wagons for the conveyance of
goods, wares and merchandise, for the sum of one dollar per mile
annually, to be paid in such manner that a quarterly payment shall
always be in advance, and if any person or persons who shall wish
to make such contract, shall think the annual sum aforesaid unreasonable
and disproportionate to the number of their family and
their use of the said road, the party so aggrieved or dissatisfied,
and the president of the said company, shall each choose one disinterested
person, who shall decide what reduction shall be made
from the annual payment aforesaid, and in case the two persons so
chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a third person, and then the
three persons, or a majority of them, shall decide as aforesaid; or
in case the said president shall neglect or refuse to choose a disinterested
person for the space of five days, the person chosen by the
party aggrieved or dissatisfied as aforesaid, shall decide what reduction
ought to be made, and the sum thus fixed shall be the commutation
of such person for the current year. |
Officers to give
bond. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the officers of
the said company
hereafter appointed or elected for the purpose of collecting tolls or
receiving money, before they or any of them respectively enter
upon the duties of his or their office, give bond to the president,
managers and company, of the New-Castle and French-town turnpike, |
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