| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
to assess and levy on the assessable property of said county,
the sum of two hundred dollars for each county, current money,
together with the usual commission for collecting the same, which
sum shall be paid to the president and directors, for the time being,
or their order, by the collector of said county, in such manner and
at such time as other public monies are payable. |
1817.
CHAP. 224. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said president
and directors,
or their successors, or any collector of tolls, or person employed by
them, shall demand or receive any greater rates or tolls for passing
over the said bridge, than is herein before allowed, or shall neglect
to keep the said bridge in good repair for the space of five days at
any one time, they so offending, shall, for every such offence, forfeit
and pay the sum of thirty dollars, one half for the use of the
counties aforesaid, and the other half for the person who shall sue
for the same, and may be presented by the grand jury, and fined a
sum not exceeding forty dollars, in the discretion of the court. |
Fine for demanding
greater toll
than is allowed. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors
shall keep a just and true account of all monies received by the several
and respective collectors of tolls for crossing said bridge, and of
the monies received from the county; and shall make and declare a
dividend of the profits and income thereof among all the stockholders,
first deducting therefrom all contingent costs and charges, and
such proportions of the said income as they may deem necessary
for keeping said bridge in repair; and shall, on every first Monday
in January and June in every year, publish the dividend so
made, and of the time and place where the same shall be paid,
and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. |
Dividends. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall wilfully
pull down, break or destroy, any part of said bridge, or of any
abutment, gate, or other property appertaining thereto, or shall
obliterate, deface or destroy, the letters or figures in any list of
the
rates of tolls affixed in any place for the information of passengers,
or who shall wilfully and maliciously obstruct or impede the passage
over the said bridge, every person, so offending, shall forfeit
and pay to the president and directors a sum not exceeding twenty
dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as debts of a similar
amount are recovered, and shall also be liable to an action or actions
for further damages, if the said sum be not sufficient to repair
and satisfy the damages done. |
Penalty for destroying
any part
of bridge, &c. |
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CHAP. CCXXV.
An Act to incorporate a Company to make a Wharf at the Town of
Cambridge, in Dorchester County.
Lib. TH. No. 164. |
Passed Feb. 16, 1818. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated to make a wharf, extending from some
point of the town of Cambridge, in Dorchester county, to the navigable
water of Choptank river, the said point to be fixed upon
by the president and managers of said company to be appointed under
the provisions of this act. |
Wharf to be made. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
to be opened for a
capital stock of ten thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars each,
and that subscriptions be taken in the town of Cambridge, under
the direction of Doctor Edward White, James Chaplain, James
Dixon, David Higgins, Josiah Bayly, Thomas Lockerman, John |
Books to be opened. |
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