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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
any person or persons shall, with such intent, take off, or cause to
be taken off, any horse, mare or gelding, or other cattle, from any
wagon or carriage of burthen or pleasure, or practice any other
fraudulent means or device, with the intent that the payment of any
such tolls or duty may be evaded or lessened, all and every person
or persons, in all, every or any of the ways or manners aforesaid
offending, shall, for every such offence respectively, forfeit and pay
to the said president, managers and company, of the road on which
said fraud shall or may be practised, any sum not exceeding ten
dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, before any
justice of the peace, in like manner as debts of a similar amount
may be sued for and recovered; Provided always, that if any person
or persons shall be prosecuted under this section, and the said
prosecution shall not be sustained on the part of the prosecutor,
then and in such case the person or persons prosecuted as aforesaid
shall receive from the company the sum of twenty dollars, in lieu
of damages from delay and vexatious prosecution, recoverable as
other fines under this act; and if any toll-gatherer shall knowingly
demand 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 in
which the forfeiture is incurred, and for the payment of which the
said company shall be responsible. |
1805.
CHAP. 79.
Proviso. |
22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president
and managers of
the said company shall keep fair and just accounts of all monies
received by them from the said commissioners, and from the subscribers
to the said undertakings on account of the several subscriptions,
and of all penalties for delay in payment thereof, and
of the amount of the profits on the shares which may be forfeited
as aforesaid, and also all monies by them expended in the prosecution
of their said work, and shall, once at least in every year, submit
such account to a general meeting of the stockholders, until
the said road shall be complete, and until all the costs, charges and
expense, of effecting the same, shall be fully paid and discharged,
and the aggregate amount of such expenses shall be liquidated and
ascertained, and if upon such liquidation, or when the capital
stock of the said company shall be nearly expended, it shall be
found that the said capital stock will be insufficient to complete the
said road, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, it
shall and may be lawful for the said president, managers and company,
at a stated or special meeting, to be convened according to
the provisions of this act or their own by-laws, to increase their
number of shares to such an extent as shall be deemed sufficient to
accomplish the work, and receive subscriptions on original terms,
and demand the money subscribed for such shares, in like manner,
and under like penalties, as are herein before provided for the
original subscriptions, or as shall be provided by their by-laws. |
Number of shares
may be increased
in case the capital
stock is insufficient,
&c. |
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the court of inspection
aforesaid
shall, at the end of every third year from the date of this incorporation,
until two years next after the whole of the said road shall
be completed, lay before the general assembly an abstract of the
accounts of the said corporation, on the oath or affirmation of the
persons intrusted by the company with keeping of the said accounts, |
Court of inspection
to lay before
the general assembly
an abstract of
the accounts of the
corporation, &c. |
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