| 1815.
CHAP. 99.
Penalty for defacing
them. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
25. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person shall
wilfully break,
deface, pull up or prostrate, any mile-stone which shall be placed
in pursuance of this act on the sides of the said road, or shall obliterate
the letters or figures thereon, or shall wilfully break, pull
down, deface or destroy, any direction post which shall be erected
in pursuance of this act, at intersections of any road as aforesaid,
or the board or index hand thereto, in conformity with the directions
of this act, or shall obliterate the letters or figures inscribed
thereon, or destroy, deface or obliterate, the letters, figures or
other characters, marked at any turnpike gate which shall be erected
in pursuance of this act, for all or any of the purposes aforesaid,
or the whole or any part of any printed list of rules of tolls which
shall be fixed in pursuance of the direction of this act at any such
gate or turnpike, he, she or they, so offending in the premises, shall
and each of them shall, for every such offence, severally and respectively
forfeit and pay to the said president and company a sum
not exceeding twenty dollars, to be recovered as other debts of the same
amount, before any justice of the peace of the county where
such offence may be committed. |
Penalty for evading
payment of
toll. |
26. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons whatsoever,
riding in, or driving, any sulky, chaise, chair, phæton, cart,
wagon, wain, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of pleasure or burthen,
riding or leading any horse, mare, gelding, or driving any
hogs, sheep or cattle, shall therewith pass through any private passage
way, or other ground near to or adjoining any turnpike gate
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 other cattle, from any wagon or carriage of
burthen or pleasure, or practice any other fraudulent means or device,
with intent that the payment of any such tolls or duties may
be evaded or lessened, all and every of the ways or means aforesaid
offending, shall for every such offence respectively forfeit and pay
to the said president, managers and company, of the said road, on
which said fraud shall or may be practised, any sum not exceeding
ten dollars, to be recovered before a justice of the peace of the county
where such offence may be committed, together with costs of suit;
Provided always, that if any person or persons shall or may be
prosecuted under this section, and the prosecution shall not be sustained
on the part of the prosecutor, in such case the person or
persons prosecuted as aforesaid shall be entitled to recover from the
president, managers and company, the sum of twenty dollars, to
be recovered as aforesaid, in lieu of the damages from delay and
vexatious prosecution; and if any toll-gatherer shall knowingly demand,
take or receive, any greater toll from any person or persons
than such toll-gatherer is entitled and 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 said forfeiture is incurred, and for the payment of
which the said company shall be responsible. |
Drivers to keep
the right hand
side. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all wagons, and
drivers of carriages
of all kind of burthen or pleasure, using the said road, except
when passing carriages of slower draught, shall keep their wagons |
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