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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Stricker's mill and the city of Baltimore, until the same shall have
been completely turnpiked with stone, or gravel or wood, as aforesaid. |
1804.
CHAP. 91. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of ascertaining
the weight which may be drawn along the said road in any cart,
wagon, or other carriage of burthen, it shall and may be lawful for
the said president, managers and company, to erect and establish
scales and weights at or near such or so many of the gates erected,
or to be erected in pursuance of the said recited act, as they may
think proper, and where there may seem reasonable cause to suspect
that any cart, wagon, or other carriage of burthen, carries a
greater weight than is or shall be by law allowable, it shall be lawful
for their toll-gatherers, or other persons in their service or employment,
to prevent the same from passing such gate or turnpike,
until such cart, wagon or other carriage of burthen, shall be drawn
into the said erected scales at or near any such gate or turnpike,
and the weight or burthen drawn therein ascertained by weighing;
and if the person or persons driving or having care or charge of
any such cart, wagon, or other carriage of burthen, shall refuse to
drive the same into any such scales for the purpose aforesaid, the
person or persons so refusing shall forfeit and pay to the said president,
managers and company, a sum not less than five dollars nor
more than eight dollars, to be recovered in the same manner as
debts under ten pounds are recovered. |
Scales to be erected
for ascertaining
weights drawn
along the said road. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no wagon or other
carriage
with four wheels, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches,
shall be drawn along the said road with a greater weight
thereon than three tons; that no such carriage, the breadth of
whose wheels shall not be seven inches, or being six inches or more
shall not roll at least ten inches, shall be drawn along the said road
with more than five tons; that no such carriage, the breadth of
whose wheels shall not be ten inches or more, or being less shall
not roll at least twelve inches, shall be drawn along the said road
with more than eight tons; that no cart or other carriage with two
wheels, the same breadth of wheels as the wagons aforesaid, shall
be drawn along the said road with more than half the burthen or
weight aforesaid; and if any cart, wagon, or carriage of burthen
whatsoever, shall be drawn along the said road with a greater
weight than is hereby allowed, the owner or owners of such carriage,
if the excess of burthen shall be greater than three hundred
weight, shall forfeit and pay four times the customary tolls, for the
use of the company; Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful
for the said company, by their by-laws, to alter any or all the
regulations herein contained respecting the burthens on carriages
to be drawn over the said road, and to substitute other regulations,
if upon experiment such alterations shall be found conducive
to the public good; Provided nevertheless, that such regulations
shall
not lessen the burthens of carriages above described. |
Weights drawn in
wagons, &c. regulated.
Provisos. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company,
after the
said road be completed as aforesaid, shall neglect to keep the said
road in good and perfect order for the space of fifteen days, and information
shall be given to any justice of the peace within the county,
such justice shall issue a precept, to be directed to any constable,
commanding him to summon three disinterested persons, to be |
Penalty for not
keeping road in
repair. |
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