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CHAP.
XCVI.
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XXIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the court of inspection aforesaid shall, at the end of every
third year from the date of this incorporation until two years next after the whole of the said road
shall be completed, lay before the general assembly an abstract of the accounts of the said corpora-
tion, on the oath, or affirmation, of the persons intrusted by the company with keeping of the said
accounts, shewing the whole amount of their capital expended in the prosecution of the said work,
and of the income and profits arising from the said tolls, for and during the said respective period, toge-
ther with an exact account of the costs and charges of keeping the said road in repair, and all other
contingent costs and charges, so that the clear annual income and profits thereof may be ascertained
and known; and if at the end of two years after the said road shall be completed from the beginning
to the end thereof, it shall appear, from the average profits of the said two years, that the said clear
income and profits will not bear a dividend of ten per centum per annum on the capital stock of the
said company so expended, then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said president, managers
and company, to increase the tolls therein before allowed so much upon each and every allowance
thereof as will raise the dividends up to ten per centum per annum, and at the end of three years
thereafter the said company shall, on the oath, or affirmation, of the persons respectively employed
to keep the accounts of the said company, render such like statements to the general assembly, and
if at the end of any such triennial period there shall be a surplus of tolls, over and above satisfying
the aforesaid ten per centum upon the said road, the said court of inspection shall have power, and
is hereby authorised, to receive such surplus, and to employ the fame in purchasing out the stock of
the said road.
XXIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company shall cause posts to be erected and conti-
nued at the intersection of every public road falling into and leading out of the said turnpike road,
with a board and index hand, pointing to the direction of such road, on both sides whereof shall be
inscribed, in legible characters, the name of the town, village or place, to which such road leads,
and the distance thereof in computed miles, and the said company shall cause milestones to be placed
at the side of the said road, beginning at the distance of one mile from Westminster, and extending
thence to the termination of the said road, whereon shall be marked, in plain legible characters, the
number of miles which each stone is distant from Westminster aforesaid, and at every gate or turn-
pike by them to be fixed on the said road, shall cause the distance from Westminster, and the dis-
tance from the nearest gate or turnpike, in each direction, to be marked in legible characters, desig-
nating the number of miles, and fractions of a mile, on the said gates, or some other conspicuous
place, for the information of travellers and others using the said road; and if any person shall wil-
fully destroy the said posts, boards, index hands or milestones, or deface the same, or deface the
directions made on the said gates or other conspicuous places as aforesaid, or shall, without permis-
sion of the acting superintendent of the said road, throw out upon the road, or within the limits of
the 'same, and suffer to remain for the space of one day, any mould, dirt, weeds or rubbish of any
kind, such person, being convicted thereof by the evidence of one or more credible and disinterested
witnesses, before any justice of the peace of the county, he or she shall be adjudged by the said jus-
tice to pay a fine, not exceeding ten dollars, to be recovered, with costs, as debts under ten pounds
ure by law recoverable; which fine, when recovered, shall be paid to the treasurer of the company
lor the use of the said company.
XXV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all wagoners, and drivers of carriages of all kinds, whether
of burthen or pleasure, using the said road, shall, except when passing by a carriage of slower
draught, keep their horses and carriages on the right hind side of the said road in the passing direc-
tion, leaving the other side of the road free and clear for the other carriages to pass and repass; and
if any driver shall offend against this provision, he shall forfeit and pay not exceeding ten dollars, to
any person who shall be obstructed in his passage, and will warrant for the same, to be recovered,
with costs, before any justice, in the same manner as debts under ten pounds are recoverable.
XXVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be lawful for the said company to ask, demand
or receive, of or from any person or persons living on or adjacent to the said road, within three
miles of any of the said gates or turnpikes, any toll for passing the said gate more than once in
twenty-four hours.
XXVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll gate shall be erected within the distance of one
mile from any one of the towns or villages in this act mentioned.
XXVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president and managers of the said turnpike road
for the time being, shall and may, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to grant, demise,
and to farm let, to any person or persons with whom they can agree, the tolls and duties which they,
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