| 1817.
CHAP. 126. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
said William E. Williams, his heirs and assigns, for ever, and that
the said William E. Williams, his heirs or assigns, shall and may
demand and receive toll from travellers and others, according to
the following rates, viz: For every coach, chariot, phaeton, loaded
wagon, or other four wheel carriage and team, fifty cents; for
every unloaded wagon and team twenty-five cents; for every
chaise, riding chair, cart, or other two wheeled carriage and term,
twenty-five cents; for every sleigh and team twenty-five cents; for
every sled and team twelve and a half cents; for every single horse
and rider six and a quarter cents; for every foot passenger two
cents; for every head of horned cattle, sheep, mules, horses, &c. or
swine, two cents. |
Penalty for demanding
greater
tolls than are allowed. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said William
E. Williams, his heirs or assigns, or whomsoever shall hereafter
own or possess the said bridge, shall exact or demand any greater
or other rates or prices for the passage over the same than what
is herein before prescribed or specified, or shall neglect to keep
the said bridge in good repair, he, she or they, so offending, shall
forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of twenty dollars,
one moiety thereof to the state, and the other moiety to the party
complaining, or who may sue for the same, to be recovered before
any justice of the peace of the said county. |
Cost of building
to be estimated.
Proviso. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whensoever, at
any
time after the erection and building of the said bridge, it shall
seem expedient to the levy court of Frederick county to constitute
and make the same bridge, so erected and built, a free bridge, the
governor and council for the time being shall, on the application
of the levy court of Frederick county, appoint five commissioners,
who shall estimate the sum or sums of money the said William
E. Williams, his heirs or assigns, shall be entitled to receive as
a
compensation for his trouble and expenses in building and maintaining
the said bridge, which sum or sums shall be paid to him or
them by the levy court of Frederick county, and upon the payment
or tendering of the said sum of money by the levy court to the
person or persons entitled to receive the same, the property in the
said bridge shall be vested in Frederick county; Provided always,
that this act shall have no effect, unless the levy court, at their
next annual meeting, shall agree in writing, to be signed by all
the members of the said court, that this law shall be carried into
execution, and shall also cause the said agreement to be entered on
the records of the said court. |
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Passed Feb. 5, 1818.
* Ch. 142. |
CHAP. CXXVII.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act authorising a Lottery
for
raising a sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned,
passed
at November session eighteen hundred and nine*.
Lib. TH. No.
6, fol. 33. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, several of the persons who were originally
appointed
managers for the above lottery are dead; therefore, |
| Additional managers. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the honourable Richard T. Earle, James Barroll, Daniel C. Hopper,
Tench Tilghman, Henry Alexander, and George Hayne, be
added to the managers originally appointed, who now survive, be
and hereby authorised and empowered to carry the objects of the |
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