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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
throw out upon the road, or within the limits of the same, and suffer
to remain for the space of one day, any mould, dirt, weeds or
rubbish of any kind, such person being convicted thereof by the
evidence of one or more credible and disinterested witnesses before
any justice of the peace of the county, he or she shall be adjudged
by the said justice to pay a fine not exceeding ten dollars, to be recovered,
with costs, as debts under ten pounds are by law recoverable,
which fine, when recovered, shall be paid to the treasurer
of the company, for the use of the said company. |
1804.
CHAP. 51. |
32. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all wagoners and
drivers of carriages
of all kinds, whether of burthen or pleasure, using the said
road, shall, except when passing by a carriage of slower draught,
keep their horses and carriages on the right hand side of the said
road in the passing direction, leaving the other side of the road free
and clear for other carriages to pass and repass; and if any driver
shall offend against this provision, he shall forfeit and pay the sum
of ten dollars to any person who shall be obstructed in his passage,
and will sue for the same, to be recovered, with costs, before any
justice, in the same manner as debts under ten pounds are recoverable. |
Drivers to keep
the right hand
side when passing
carriages of slower
draught. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any of
the said companies to ask, demand or receive, of or from any person
or persons living on or adjacent to the said road, within three
miles of any of the said gates or turnpikes, any toll for passing the
said gate more than once in twenty-four hours. |
Persons living adjacent
to road to
pay toll but once
in 24 hours. |
34. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll-gate shall
be erected
within the distance of one mile from any of the towns or villages in
this act mentioned. |
No gate to be
erected within a
mile of any village. |
35. AND BE IT ENACTED, That either of the
said presidents and
managers of any of the said turnpike roads for the time being, shall
and may, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to grant,
demise, and to farm let, to any person or persons with whom they
can agree, the tolls and duties which they, by virtue of this act or
their own by-laws, are authorised to demand and receive for passage
in, upon and along, the said road, at any such gate or turnpike,
over or upon the same, or any part of the same, for any term
not exceeding seven years, under such rents, reservations and conditions,
as the said president and managers, at any meeting of their
board, shall agree upon, which grants and demises shall have the
sane construction, force and effect, as other like grants and demises
made between private persons have and receive. |
Tolls and duties
may be granted,
demised or farm
let. |
36. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if, by the termination
of any of
the said roads, it should so happen that a fractional part may remain,
over and above the even ten miles, measuring from the outlines
of the city of Baltimore aforesaid, that it shall and may be
lawful for the said companies, on the same being completed agreeably
to this act, to make application to the governor and council, who
shall thereupon have the same examined and licensed as aforesaid
to receive tolls in the same proportions on the aforesaid fractional
part of the said road as is herein before allowed to be received on
other parts of the said road. |
Fractional parts
of roads—proceedings
relative
thereto. |
37. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every
provision of this
act, so far as the same relate to the Reister's-town and York-town
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Provisions of this
act relating to
Reister's-town &
York-town roads
to be suspended. |
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