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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

erected scales at or near any such gate or turnpike ;

or in the absence of scales or weights, then at the

nearest or most convenient scales to such gate or

turnpike, provided such scales are not more than

one half mile distant from the said gate or turnpike,

and the weight or burthen drawn therein ascer-

tained bv weighing; and if the person or persons

driving or having care or charge of any such cart,

wagon or other carriage of burthen shall refuse to

Fine for refus-
ing to drive in-

drive the same into any such scales for the purpose
aforesaid, the person or persons so refusing shall for-

to scales.

feit and pay to the said president, managers and

company, any sum not less than five dollars nor more

than eight dollars, to be recovered in the manner

hereinafter mentioned.

14 b. That no wagon or other carriage with four

wheels, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be

four inches, shall be drawn along the said road with

a greater weight thereon than three tons; that no

such carriage, the breadth of whose wheels exceed

Breadth of
wagon wheels.

four inches, or being four inches, shall be drawn

along said road with more than three and a half tons ;

that no cart or other carriage with two wheels,

the same breadth of wheels as the wagons afore-

said, shall be drawn along the said road with more

than half the burthen or weight aforesaid; and if

any cart, wagon or carriage of burthen whatever

shall be drawn along the said road with a greater

weight than is hereby allowed the owner or owners

of such carriage, if the excess of the burthen shall

be five hundred pounds or more, shall forfeit and

Pay double

pay double the customary tolls for the use of the

tolls.

said company; provided, always, that it shall and

may be lawful for the said company, by their by-laws,

to alter any or all the regulations herein contained

respectively, the burthens or carriages to be drawn

over the said road, and to substitute other regula-

tions, if upon experiment such regulations shall be

found conducive to the public good; provided, never-

theless, that such regulations shall not lessen the

burthens of carriages afore described.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the General

Right to alter

Assembly reserves the, right to alter or amend this

or amend.

act at pleasure.

Approved March 15, 1882.