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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

How con-

construed to extend to the use of said road, by said

strued.

parties so assessed, at such times or trips as they shall

not pass through any toll gate on said road; and

that whenever any such parties so assessed shall

pass through any such toll gate, they shall be charge-

able with the regular rates of toll ; and provided

that no person passing from part of his farm to an-

other part thereof shall be charged with toll ; and

provided further, that no toll shall be charged by

this company on any vehicle passing over this road

for the purpose of going to or from funerals.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if any person or

Not to de-
fraud.

persons whomsoever, riding or driving any animal
or thing for which tolls are prescribed by the act in-

corporating this company, shall pass through any

private gate or bar, passage way or other ground,

or having traveled over a part of the road of this

company with a team of horses or other animals

for which tolls are prescribed, shall, when approach-

ing a toll gate of said company, detach a part there-

of with the intent to defraud the said company or

avoid the payment of the toll or duty for passing

through any of its gates or over its turnpike, such

person or persons, in all or any of the ways or

means so offending, shall, for every such offence re-

Forfeiture

spectively, forfeit and pay to said company any sum
not less than two nor more than five dollars, to be

sued for and recovered with costs of suit before any

justice of the peace of the county wherein such party
offending may reside or do business, in like manner

as debts of a similar amount may be sued for and

recovered, and with the same right of appeal as in

such cases.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Pres-

Issue bonds.

ident and Directors of the Liberty and Pipe Creek

Turnpike Road Company, or a majority of them, be

and they are hereby authorized and empowered to

issue the bonds of said company to an amount not

exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the

purpose of paying off an existing indebtedness upon

said road, and of putting and keeping said road in

good condition and repair; and the said bonds shall

be issued in sums of not less than one hundred dol-

lars each, payable twenty years after date, to holder,