GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR,

1831.

to set aside the judgment by default, and the inquisition

CHAP. 216,

taken thereon, at the suit of Sarah Gratz Against the said
John Mann, rendered at the January term last past, of said ,
court, and to allow the said Mann a new trial by jury,
without in any way being prejudiced by said judgment and ,
inquisition, and that all further proceedings upon said judg-
ment be stayed.

New trial granted
Proceedings stay
ed

CHAPTER 216.

An act to authorise a toll to be collected upon the Bridge in
the city of Baltimore, over the mouth of Gwynn's Falls,
for the repairs thereof.

Passed Mar. 6,1821

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That William Krebs and Richard Linthecum, of the
city of Baltimore, be and they are hereby authorised and
empoweied to demand and collect, or cause to be demanded
and collected from each and every person not herein ex-
cepted, who may hereafter pass or repass the bridge over
Gwynn's Falls, near its mouth, usually called the Long

Authority to col-
lect.

Bridge, tolls at the following rates, viz: for every wagon,
coach or other carriage of four horses, mules or oxen, twen-
ty-five cents, for every wagon, coach, phaeton or other four
wheel carriage, of two horses, mules or oxen, twelve and a
half cents, for every cart or other carriage, of not more
than one horse, mule or ox, six and a quarter cents, for
every horse and rider, three cents, for every foot passenger
two cents, for every extra horse in a carriage or other team,
above the number prescribed, two cents; for every head of
horses, mules or horned cattle two cents, for every head of
sheep, swine, &c. one cent; Provided nevertheless, That all
wagons, carts or other carriages and their drivers, engaged,
used, occupied and employed in the transportation of pro-

Rate of tolls.

duce by the grower of the articles or his agent, to the pub-
lic markets in the city of Baltimore, shall be exempt from
the payment of tolls for crossing and recrossing said bridge;

Exceptions fromu

toll.

which tolls, when collected, shall be applied by the said
William Krebs and Richard Linthecum, in the manner fol-
lowing, viz; in the first place to the payment, from time to
time, of the necessary expenses of collecting the same, in
the second place, to the reimbursement of such monies, with
interest, as the said William Krebs and Richard Linthecum,
may procure or advance to defray the expenses of the re-
pairs immediately required upon said bridge, and in the

Application of
toll.