CHAP.
XXXIII.

real estate, and be for ever exempt from payment of any tax, imposition, or assessment
whatsoever; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said president and
directors, at all times for ever hereafter, to demand and receive, at the nearest
convenient place below the mouth of the south branch, and at or near Payne's
falls, and at or above the great falls of the river Patowmack, and every of those
places separately, for all commodities transported through either of them respectively,
tolls according to the following table and rates, to wit:
                                                                                                    Sterling.

Every pipe or hogshead of wine containing     more than sixty-five gallons, Every hogshead or rum or other spirits, Every hogshead of tobacco, Every cask between sixty-five and thirty-five     gallons, one half of a pipe or hogshead;     barrels, one fourth part; and     smaller casks or kegs in proportion,     according to the quality and quantity     of their contents of wine or spirits. For casks of linseed oil, the same as spirits. Every bushel of wheat, peas, beans, or     flaxseed, Every bushel of Indian corn or other     grain, or salt, Every barrel of pork, Every barrel of beef, Every barrel of flour, Every tun of hemp, flax, pot-ash, bar or     manufactured iron, Every tun of pig-iron or castings, Every tun of copper, lead, or other ore,     other than iron ore, Every tun of stone or iron ore, Every hundred bushels of lime, Every chaldron of coals, Every hundred pipe staves, Every hundred hogshead staves, or pipe     or hogshead heading, Every hundred barrel staves, or barrel     heading, Every hundred cubic feet of plank or     scantling, Every hundred cubic feet of other timber, Every gross hundred weight of all other     commodities or packages, And every empty boat or vessel which     has not commodities on board to yield     so much, except an empty boat or vessel     returning, whose load has already     paid at the respective places the sums     fixed at each, in which case she is to     pass toll free,

At the mouth     of the south     branch. 0    1    6 0    1    3 0    1    0 0    0    01/4 0    0    01/4 0    0    6 0    0    4 0    0    3 0    2    6 0    0  10 0    2    0 0    0    5 0    1    3 0    0    5 0    0    21/4 0    0    11/4 0    0    1 0    0  10 0    0    51/2 0    0    11/2           0    2    6

At Payne's         falls. 0    1    6 0    1    3 0    1    0               0    0    01/2 0    0    01/4 0    0    6 0    0    4 0    0    3 0    2    6 0    0  10 0    2    0 0    0    5 0    1    3 0    0    5 0    0    21/4 0    0    01/4 0    0    1 0    0  10 0    0    51/2 0    0    01/2           0    2    6

At the great         falls. 0    3    0 0    2    6 0    2    0 0    0    1 0    0    01/2 0    1    0 0    0    8 0    0    6 0    5    0 0    1    8 0    4    0 0    0  10 0    2    6 0    0  10 0    0    41/2 0    0    3 0    0    2 0    1    8 0    0  11 0    0    3 0    5    0

    Which tolls are rated in sterling money, and may be discharged in foreign gold
or silver coin on the present fineness, at the following rates, to wit:
 

Spanish milled piece of eight, or dollar,                                                                             £.0    4    6 Other coined Spanish silver of equal fineness, per ounce,                                                      0    5    11/4