JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 577
CHAPTER 393.
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AN ACT to repeal section twenty of an act entitled
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"an act to incorporate companies to make several
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turnpike roads through Baltimore county, and for
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other purposes," passed at December session, eigh-
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teen hundred and four, and to re-enact the same
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with amendments.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That section twenty of an act passed at
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December session, eighteen hundred and four, enti-
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Repealed and
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tled " an act to incorporate companies to make sev-
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re-enacted.
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eral turnpike roads through Baltimore county, and
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for other purposes," be and the same is repealed and
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re-enacted to read as follows, viz :
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20. The said respective companies shall and may
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appoint such toll-gatherers as they shall think
proper, to collect and receive tolls from all and
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Appoint each
toll-gatherers.
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every person using the said roads, the tolls and rates
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hereinafter mentioned; and to stop any person ri-
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ding, leading or driving any horses, cattle, hogs,
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sheep, sulky, wagon, sleigh, sled, buggy, or other
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vehicle, from passing through the said gates or turn-
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pikes until they shall have paid the same ; that is to
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say, for every space of ten miles in length of the said
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road the following sum of money, and so on in propor-
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tion, for any greater or less distance, as for any
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greater or less number of sheep, hogs or cattle, viz :
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for every score of sheep, one-eighth of a dollar; for
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Rates.
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every score of hogs, one-eighth of a dollar ; for every
score of cattle, one-fourth of a dollar; for every
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horse and rider, or led loose, one-sixteenth of a dol-
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lar ; for every two-wheeled vehicle with one horse,
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one-eighth of a dollar ; for every vehicle with two
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horses and four wheels, one-quarter of af dollar, and
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with four horses and four wheels, three-eighths of a
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dollar ; for every cart or wagon whose wheels do not
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exceed the breadth of three inches and a half, one
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eighth of a dollar for each horse drawing the same ;
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for every cart or wagon whose wheels shall exceed
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in width three inches and a half, and not exceeding
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seven inches, one-sixteenth of a dollar ; for every
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cart or wagon, the breadth of whose wheels shall be
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