| 1815.
CHAP. 79. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
of them, shall as soon thereafter as may be, make return of their
proceedings to the said county court, there to be recorded, on the
report of the said commissioners, or a major part of them, being
ratified and confirmed. |
May be licensed as
a toll bridge. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judges of the
said court are
hereby authorised and required to grant a licence to the said proprietors,
or to their assigns, to keep the said bridge as a toll bridge,
with proper gates and bars to secure the same, and to ask, demand
and receive, as toll for passage of the said bridge, the following
sums of money to wit: For all four wheel carriages, driver included,
twenty-five cents; all two wheel ditto, driver included, twenty cents;
man and horse six and a quarter cents; each stage passenger three
cents; each foot passenger three cents; each horse without a rider
three cents; cattle each three cents; sheep and hogs each one cent. |
Authorised to dispose
of ferry landing,
&c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said heirs,
devisees, or other
legal representatives, of the said Edward Norwood and Samuel
Norwood, shall have full power and authority, if they think proper,
to sell and dispose of the said ferry landing, and the lands immediately
thereto appertaining, to any person or persons, body corporate
or politic, who are hereby authorised to purchase and hold
the same, with all the privileges and appendages to the same belonging,
and the purchaser and purchasers thereof, and his or their
heirs, successors and assigns, shall be and hereby are authorised
and empowered to erect the said bridge, and ask, demand and receive,
the like tolls as aforesaid, for the passage of the said bridge,
and in the same manner as if they were severally named herein,
and as fully and as effectually as if they were the present proprietors
thereof. |
Proprietors may
form themselves
into a corporate
body.
Provisos. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the present proprietors
of the said
ferry, or any person or persons claiming under them, shall have
full power and authority to form and create themselves into a corporate
body, to sell and dispose of shares in the said property and
tolls, and make such rules and regulations for the government and
management thereof as a majority of said company may think proper;
Provided, the same be not contrary to the laws of this state;
And provided also, that in case the said company, or proprietors
of
the said bridge, shall suffer the same to go out of repair, or to become
unsafe or unfit for the transportation of passengers, that then
the said tolls shall cease, and not be demanded till the said bridge
shall be substantially repaired; and if the said proprietors, or their
assigns, shall ask, demand or receive, any greater tolls for crossing
the said bridge than are rated and fixed as aforesaid, they shall
forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of fifty dollars, to
be recovered before a single magistrate, one half to the informer,
and the other half for the use of the county. |
| Stock may be increased. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any company
or body
corporate shall become the proprietors of the said ferry landing,
and shall undertake to erect the bridge authorised by this act, it
shall and may be lawful for the said company or body corporate to
increase the stock of said company to an amount equal to the payment
of the purchase money, for the ferry landing, and the expense
of erecting the bridge aforesaid, and the purchasers of such stock
shall have all the rights and privileges, and shall be subject to all
the conditions allowed and prescribed by the act incorporating said
company. |
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