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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and receive any greater toll from any person or persons than such
toll-gatherer is authorised to demand and receive by virtue of this
act, such toll-gatherer shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars
for every such offence, to the use of the county, and for the
payment of which the said company shall be responsible; And provided
also, that any person occupying a farm or lot on the said road
on or adjoining to which a toll-gate may be erected, shall have ingress
and egress to and from the said turnpike road, from and to
the said farm or lot, in as many places as he or she may find convenient,
without contravening any of the provisions of this act. |
1804.
CHAP. 91. |
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
shall cause
posts to be erected and continued at the intersection of every public
road falling into, and leading out of, the said turnpike road,
with a board and index hand pointing to the direction of such roads,
on both sides whereof shall be inscribed, in legible characters, the
name of the town, village or place, to which such road leads, and
the distance thereof in computed miles; and the said company shall
cause mile-stones to be placed at the side of the said road, beginning
and extending thence to the termination of the said road, whereon
shall be marked, in plain legible characters, the respective number
of miles which each stone is distant from the city of Baltimore
aforesaid; and at every gate or turnpike by them to be fixed on the
said road, shall cause the distance from Baltimore, and the distance
from the nearest gates or turnpikes in each direction, to be marked
in legible characters, designating the number of miles and fractions
of a mile on the said gates, or some other conspicuous place, for the
information of travellers and others using the said road; and if any
person shall wilfully destroy the said posts, boards, index hands or
mile stones, or deface the same, or deface the directions made on
the said gates or other conspicuous places as aforesaid, or shall,
without permission of the acting superintendent of the said road,
throw out upon the road, or within the limits of the road, and suffer
to remain for the space of one day, any mould, dire, weeds, or
rubbish of any kind, such person, being convicted thereof by the
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 recovered,
which fine, when recovered, shall be paid to the treasurer of the
company, for the use of the said company. |
Posts, boards and
index hands—
penalty for destroying
them. |
19. 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 said 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 five 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 manner that debts under ten pounds are recoverable. |
Drivers to keep
the right hand
side of the road,
&c. |
20. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for the said company
to ask, demand or receive, of or from any person or persons |
Persons living on
or adjacent to road
to pay toll but
once in 24 hours. |
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