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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
directors of this act, and all its profits, shall be and the same are
hereby vested in the said company for ever, to be held as tenants
in common, in proportion to their respective shares; and it shall
and may be lawful for the said directors, at all times hereafter, to
demand and receive such reasonable tax or toll as they may from
time to time agree on and require, provided they shall not at any
time demand and receive more than the present rates of ferriage
over Chester river, which rates or tolls shall at all times be made
public, and shall not be altered or changed oftener than once in each
year. |
1804.
CHAP. 63. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said president
and directors,
or their successors, or any person by their authority, 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 ten days at any one
time, they so offending shall, for every such offence, forfeit and
pay the sum of thirty dollars, one half thereof for the use of Kent
and Queen-Anne's counties respectively, and the other half for the
use of the person who may sue for the same; provided that no suit
or action shall be brought unless within thirty days after such offence
shall be committed. |
Penalty for demanding
greater
tolls than allowed
by this act. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors
shall keep a just and true account of all monies received by their
several and respective collectors of tolls for crossing the said bridge,
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 to provide against the decay, and
for repairing the said bridge, and shall, on every first Monday in
June and January every year, publish the dividend to be made
of the said clear profits thereof among the stockholders, and of the
time and place where and when the same shall be paid, and shall
cause the same to be paid accordingly. |
Dividends, when
and where to be
paid. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
or person shall
wilfully, or without the orders of the said president and directors,
pull down, break or destroy, with intent to injure any part or parts
of the said bridge, or of any abutment, pier or piers, or of any of
the toll-houses, gates, bars, or other property of the said corporation
appertenant to, or erected or made for, the use and convenience
of the said bridge, or the persons employed in conducting the
business thereof, or shall wilfully, without the orders and consent
of the said corporation, or any person or persons authorised by
them, obliterate, deface or destroy, the letters, figures or other
characters, in any written or printed list of the rates or tolls affixed,
or to be affixed, in any place or places for the information of
passengers, and others, or who shall wilfully and maliciously obstruct
or impede the passage on or over the said bridge, or any
part or parts thereof, he, she or they, so offending, shall, and each
of them shall, forfeit and pay to the said president, directors and
company, not exceeding the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace in like manner, and subject to the
same rules and regulations, as debts under ten pounds may be recovered,
and he, she or they, so offending, may and shall remain liable
to actions, at the suit of the said president and directors, for |
Penalty for injuring bridge. |
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