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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
29. 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
living on or adjacent to the said road, within three miles of
any of the said gates or turnpikes, any toll for passing the said
gate more than once in twenty-four hours. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 128.
Certain persons
not to pay toll
more than once in
24 hours. |
30. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and managers
of the said turnpike road for the time being, shall and may, and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to grant, demise, and
to farm let, to any person or persons with whom they can agree,
the tolls and duties which they, by virtue of this act, or their own
by-laws, are authorised to demand and receive for passage in, upon
and along the said road, at any such gate or turnpike, over or
upon the same, or any part of the same, for any term not exceeding
seven years, under such rents, reservations and conditions, as
the said president and managers, at any meeting of their board,
shall agree upon, which grants and demises shall have the same
construction, force and effect, as other like grants and demises may
between private persons have and receive. |
President and managers
may farm
out the tolls. |
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if by the termination
of the said
road it should so happen that a fractional part may remain over and
above the even ten miles, measuring from George-town aforesaid,
that it shall and may be lawful for the said company, on the same
being completed agreeably to this act, to make application to the
governor and council, who shall thereupon have the same examined
and licensed as aforesaid, to receive tolls in the same proportions
on the aforesaid fractional part of the said road, as is herein
before allowed to be received on other parts of the road. |
Proportional tolls
to be received, &c. |
32. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll-gate shall
be erected
within the distance of one mile of the district of Columbia, nor
within the distance of two miles from the Baltimore and Frederick-town
turnpike road. |
No toll-gate to be
erected within a
mile, &c. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
any corporation or body politic in the United States to become subscribers
for stock in said company, in the same manner as individuals
may become subscribers and stockholders therein, and transfers
of stock in said company may be made by corporations or bodies
politic of their stock in said company in such manner as the
said company shall and may from time to time by their laws direct
and appoint. |
Bodies corporate
may subscribe for
stock. |
34. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and managers
shall ascertain and value what damages may be sustained by any
person or persons through whose land the said road shall pass, and
the same, when so assessed, shall be paid, or secured to be paid,
before the said president and managers shall proceed to open the
said road; Provided always, that if any person or persons through
whose land the said road shall pass, or his, her or their guardian
or trustee, shall conceive themselves aggrieved by such valuation
and assessment of damages by the said president and managers, it
shall and may be lawful for the said president and managers, or any
two of them, to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the county
aforesaid, commanding him to summon twelve freeholders in the
county aforesaid, and not interested in the premises, and qualified
to serve as jurors in the county court, to appear on a day by them
to be appointed on the premises, and the said president and managers |
Damages sustained
by owners of
land, how to be
ascertained.
Proviso. |
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