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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
twenty cents; every hundred hogshead heading, hogshead staves or
barrel staves, fifteen cents; every hundred cubic feet of plank or
scantling, twenty-five cents; every gross hundred weight of all
other commodities or packages, twelve and a half cents; every
cord of wood, fifteen cents; every thousand three feet shingles,
twenty-five cents; every thousand two feet shingles, twenty cents;
every thousand of every other kind, twelve and an half cents; and
every empty boat or vessel returning, whose load has already
paid the toll aforesaid, in which case she is to pass toll free, two
and an half cents per ton; and so on, pro rato, for every article
that
shall or maybe carried though the said inlet; and the said rates,
under the limitations aforesaid, shall be collected at such places,
and in such proportions at the said respective places, as the president
and directors of the same company, or a majority of them,
may from time to time determine, and that the said tolls be rated
and paid in current money of the United States. |
1803.
CHAP. 64. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or persons shall
cut, or attempt to cut, destroy, or in any way impair, the said
wharfage, bank or dam, he, she or they, shall forfeit and pay to the
said president and directors, for the use of the said company, on
conviction in a court of law, if free, the sum of two thousand dollars,
or on the non-payment of the same within thirty days after
such conviction, he, she or they, shall be sentenced to the wheelbarrow,
to work on the public roads in Baltimore county for any
term not exceeding fourteen years; and if a servant or servants,
slave or slaves for life, to work on the roads in the county aforesaid. |
Penalty for injuring
works. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful, and
the said corporation shall have full and ample power and authority,
to make by-laws and ordinances to compel the payment of the said
tolls and duties, so set and imposed, as the said corporation may
think right and most effectual, and the said tolls and duties shall
become
a perpetual revenue for the sole and exclusive benefit of the
said corporation, and their successors, for ever. |
Corporation may
make by-laws. |
14. AND, whereas the waters may break and
force their way
across the beach, at such place and in such manner as to render the
property of individuals less valuable than at present, and it is reasonable
and proper that compensation should be made for any injury
so done, BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may be lawful for
any person or persons who may think him, her or themselves aggrieved
by reason of stopping the bay and opening an inlet as aforesaid,
or for the guardian or guardians of any infant, whose interests
may be affected thereby, to make application to any two justices
of the peace for Worcester county, which said justices shall
thereupon and they are hereby required to issue their warrant, under
their hands, to the sheriff of the said county, to summon a jury
of twelve good and lawful men of his county, not related to the parties,
nor in any manner interested, to meet at or as near the place
damaged as they conveniently can, which place shall be named by
the said justices, on a day to be expressed in the warrant, not less
than ten nor more than twenty days thereafter, and the sheriff, upon
receiving the said warrant, shall forthwith summon the said jury,
and when met, shall administer to each and every of the jurymen
so summoned the following oath: " You, A. B. do swear, or affirm, |
Persons aggrieved
on application to
two justices may
have a jury summoned. |
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