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same, and shall lodge said bond, and a copy of such valuation, in the office of the clerk of the county
court, to be by him recorded, and upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be
instituted against the obligors therein named, by any person or persons entitled to receive such da-
mages; and the justice and sheriff shall be entitled to receive the same fees for services under this
act as they are allowed in similar cases; and the persons summoned as jurymen to value the damages
sustained as aforesaid, shall each receive one dollar for every day he shall attend for that purpose;
which fees and allowances shall be paid by the president and managers of the company at whose in-
stance the persons may have been summoned.
XII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president, managers and company, shall erect per-
manent bridges over all the waters crossing the said road, wherever the, same shall be found ne-
cessary, and shall cause eighteen 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 for 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, and
shall for ever hereafter, during the continuance of the said incorporation, maintain and keep the
same in good and perfect order and repair.
XIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as the said president, managers and company, shall have
perfected the said road for any distance from the town of Westminster, not less than five 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 appoint three skilful and judici-
ous persons to view and examine the same, and report to him, in writing, whether the paid road is so
far extended in a masterly workmanlike manner, according to the true intent and meaning of this
act, and if their reports, shall be in the affirmative, then the governor shall, by license under his hand,
and seal of the state, permit and suffer the said president, managers and company, to erect and fix
such and so many gates or turnpikes upon and across the said road, as will be necessary and suffi-
cient to collect the tolls and duties herein after granted to the said company, from all persons travel-
ling on the same with horses, cattle, wagons, carts and carriages.
XIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company having perfected the said road, or such parts
thereof from time to time as aforesaid, and the same being examined, approved and licensed, in
manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for them to appoint such and so many tollgatherers as
they shall think proper, to collect and receive of and from all and every person or 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 passing through the said gate or
turnpike, until they shall have 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, viz. 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 or 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 every other carriage
of pleasure, under whatsoever name it may go, the like sums, according 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; for every cart or wagon, whose
wheels shall exceed in breadth four inches, and not exceeding seven inches, one sixteenth of a dol-
lar for every horse drawing the same; for every cart or wagon, the breadth of whose wheels shall
be more than seven inches, and not more than ten inches, or being the breadth of seven inches
shall roll more than ten inches, five cents for every horse drawing the same; for every cart or wagon,
the breadth of whose wheels shall be more than ten inches and not exceeding twelve inches, or be-
ing ten inches shall roll more than fifteen inches, three cents for every horse drawing the same; for.
every cart or wagon, the breadth of whose wheels shall be more than twelve inches, two cents for
every horse drawing the same.
XV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose of ascertaining the weight that may be drawn
Along the said road in any cart, wagon or other carriage of burthen, it shall and may be lawful for
the said president, managers and company, to erect and establish scales and weights at or near such
and so many of the gates erected, or to be erected, in pursuance of this act, as. they may think pro-
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