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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
him recorded, and upon such bond, or an office copy thereof, suit
or suits may be instituted against the obligors therein named, by
any person or persons entitled to receive such damages; and the
justice and sheriff shall be entitled to receive the same fees for services
under this act as they are allowed in similar cases; and the
persons summoned as jurymen to value the damages sustained as
aforesaid, shall each receive one dollar for every day he shall attend
for that purpose, which fees and allowance shall be paid by the
president and managers of the company at whose instance the persons
may have been summoned. |
1805.
CHAP. 79. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president,
managers
and company, shall have power to erect permanent bridges over all
the waters crossing the said road, wherever the same shall be found
necessary, and shall cause the said road to be kept open to the same
width, and in the same place, as they were originally laid out and
used, and shall cause twenty feet thereof in breadth at least to be
made an artificial road, which shall be bedded with wood, stone or
gravel, or any other hard substance, well compacted together, a sufficient
depth to secure a solid foundation to the same, and the said
road shall be faced with gravel or stone pounded, or other small
hard substance, in such manner as to secure a firm, and as near as
the materials will reasonably admit, an even surface, and so nearly
level in its progress as that it shall in no place rise or fall more
than will form an angle of four degrees with an horizontal line, and
shall for ever hereafter, during the continuance of said incorporation,
maintain and keep the same in good and perfect order and repair. |
—to erect permanent
bridges
over waters crossing
the road, &c. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the
said president,
managers and company, shall have perfected the said road for any
distance from the district of the territory of Columbia, not less than
ten miles, and so on from time to time any other like distance progressively,
they shall give notice thereof to the governor of this
state, who shall thereupon forthwith nominate and appoint three
skilful and judicious persons to view and examine the same, and
report to him, in writing, whether the said road is so far extended
in a masterly workmanlike manner, according to the true intent and
meaning of this act; and if their report shall be in the affirmative,
then the governor shall, by licence under his hand and the seal of
the state, permit and suffer the said president, managers and company,
to erect and fix such and so many gates or turnpikes upon
and across the said road as will be necessary and sufficient to collect
the tolls and duties herein after granted to the said company, from
all persons travelling on the same with horses, cattle, wagon, carts
and carriages. |
When road is
finished ten miles,
governor to appoint
persons to
view it. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company
having perfected
the said road, or such parts thereof, from time to time as
aforesaid, and the same being examined, approved and licensed, in
manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for them to appoint
such and so many toll-gatherers as they shall think proper, to collect
and receive, of and from all and every person or persons using
the said road, the tolls and rates herein after mentioned, and to stop
any person riding, leading or driving, any horses, cattle, hogs, sheep,
sulkey, chair, chaise, phæton, coach, coachee, cart, wagon, wain,
sleigh, sled, or other carriage of pleasure or burthen, from passing |
Toll gatherers to
be appointed—
rates of toll. |
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