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JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 349

or wagon with one horse or oxen, twenty-five cents; for every carriage or wagon with two horses, thirty cents; for every carriage or wagon with four horses, forty cents; for every head of horses, cattle, sheep or hogs, five cents; which rates of toll shall be made public.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said president and directors shall keep a just and true account of all moneys received for tolls for crossing said bridge and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof, among all the stockholders, first deducting therefrom all contingent costs and charges and such proportion of the said income as they may deem necessary to provide against decay, or for repairing said bridge and approaches, and shall on the first Monday in May, in eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and on every first Monday thereafter, publish in some newspaper, in Talbot and Caroline

True account.

counties, the dividend to be made of the said clear profits thereof among the stockholders, and at the time and place where the same shall be paid.

Dividends.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted. That if any person or persons shall wilfully break or destroy with intent to injure said bridge, or part of said bridge, or shall wilfully obstruct the passage of any part of said bridge, he or she so offending shall, each of them,

Break or des-stroy.

forfeit and pay to the said president and directors, and company, not exceeding the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace in the manner and subject to the same rules and regulations as debts under fifty dollars are recovered.

Penalty.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the said president and directors and company, or a majority of them, if necessary, may agree to, and with the owners of any land, on which it is intended to abut the said bridge, and build a toll-bridge from or through which it may be necessary to extend a road, for the purchase thereof, and in case of dissatisfaction, or in case the owner or owners, shall be a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or out of the State, on application to a justice of the peace of the county, the said justice shall issue his warrant under his hand and seal, to the Sheriff of Talbot, or to the

May agree to.



 

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