ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1804.

and allowance shall be paid by the president and managers of the company at whose instance the per-
sons may have been summoned.

CHAP.
LI.

XVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said presidents, managers and companies, shall have
power to erect permanent bridges over all the waters crossing the said roads, wherever the same
shall be found necessary, and shall cause the said roads to be kept open to the same width, and in
the same place, as they were originally laid out and confirmed by the commissioners of review, and
acts of assembly heretofore passed relating thereto, and shall case twenty feet thereof in breadth
at least to be made an artificial road, which shall be bedded with wood, stone or gravel, or any other
hard substance, well compacted together, a sufficient depth to secure a solid foundation to the same,
and the said road shall be faced with gravel or stone pounded, or other small hard substance, in such
manner as to secure a firm, and as near as the materials will reasonably admit, an even surface, and
so nearly level in its progress as that it shall in no place rise or fall more than will form an angle of
four degrees with an horizontal line, except over the Catoctin and South mountains, where it may
rise or fall to an angle of six degrees with an horizontal line, and shall for ever hereafter, during
the continuance of said incorporation or incorporations, maintain and keep the same in good and
perfect order and repair.

And erect
bridges, &c.

XVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of Baltimore
county to keep up the respective turnpike gates on the said respective roads as the same are now set
up and established, and appoint toll-gatherers to receive the tolls, and to take at each of the said
gates or turnpikes the same tolls that are now established at said gates or turnpikes, until the said
companies shall have completed the distance of ten miles of each or either of the said roads from
the city of Baltimore, when it shall and may be lawful for the said companies to establish and set up
gates, appoint toll-gatherers, and receive tolls, agreeably to the provisions of this act; provided, that
it shall be the duty of the first before-mentioned company to complete and keep in repair, from their
intersection, as well the road leading into Pratt-street as the road leading into Baltimore-street, in
the manner prescribed in this act; and provided also, that no turnpike or gate shall be set up on or
across the said road between the intersection of the road leading from Montgomery court-house to
the city of Baltimore and Ellicott's lower mills on Patapsco falls.

Court may keep
up gates, &c.

XIX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as either of the said presidents, managers and com-
pany, shall have perfected either of the roads for any distance from the city of Baltimore not
less than ten miles, and so on from time to time any other like distance progressively, they shall
give notice thereof to the governor of this state, who shall thereupon forthwith nominate and ap-
point three skilful and judicious persons to view and examine the same, and report to him in writing,
whether the said road is so far extended in a masterly workmanlike manner, according to the true
intent and meaning of this act, and if their report shall be in the affirmative, then the governor shall,
by licence under his hand and the seal of the state, permit and suffer the said presidents, managers
and companies, to erect and fix such and so many gates or turnpikes upon and across the said road
as will be necessary and sufficient to collect the tolls and duties herein after granted to the said
company, from all persons travelling on the same with horses, cattle, wagons, carts and car-
riages.

Notice to be
given, &c.

XX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said respective companies, having perfected either of the
said respective roads, or such parts thereof, from time to time as aforesaid, and the same being ex-
a mined, approved and licensed, in manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for them to appoint
such and so many toll-gatherers as they shall think proper, to collect and receive, of and from all and
every person and persons using the said road, the tolls and rates herein after mentioned, and to stop
any person riding, leading or driving, any horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, sulkey, chair, chaise, phaeton,
coach, coachee, cart, wagon, wain, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of pleasure or burthen, from pas-
ring through the said gates or turnpikes, until they shall have respectively paid the same; that is to
say, for every space of ten miles in length of the said road, the following sum of money, and so in
proportion for any greater or lesser distance, or for any greater or lesser number of sheep, hogs or-
cattle, vis. For every score of sheep, one eighth of a dollar; for every score of hogs, one eighth of
a dollar; for every score of cattle, one fourth of a dollar; for every horse and his rider, or led horse,
one sixteenth of a dollar; for every chair cr chaise with one horse and two wheels, one eighth of a
dollar; for every chariot, coach, stage, wagon, phaeton or chaise, with two horses and four wheels,
one quarter of a dollar; for either of the carriages last mentioned with four horses, three eighths of
a dollar; for every other carriage of pleasure, under whatsoever name it may go, the like sums, ac-
cording to the number of wheels and horses drawing the same; for every cart or wagon whose wheels;
do not exceed the breadth of four inches, one eighth of a dollar for each horse drawing the same ;

Companies
may appoint
toll-gatherers,
&c.