T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

or driving any horse or horses, cattle, sheep, hogs,
sulky, chair, chaise, phaeton, coach, coaches, cart,
wagon, wain sled, or other carriage of pleasure or
burthen, from passing through the said gate until

CHAP. 272.

they shall have paid the same, that is to say, for
every space of ten miles in length of the road, the
following sum of money, and so on, in proportion
for any greater or less distance, that such person or
persons shall use the said road, for any greater or
less number of sheep, hogs or cattle, viz: for every
score of sheep, ten cents; for every score of hogs,
ten cents; for every score of cattle, twenty cents;
for every horse and his rider or led horse, five cents;
for every chair or chaise, with one horse and two
wheels, ten cents; for every chariot, coach, stage,
wagon, phaeton or chaise, with two horses and four
wheels, twenty cents; for every other carriage of
pleasure, under whatever name it may go, the like
sum 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,
ten cents for each horse drawing the same.

Rates of toll

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That such carriages
aforesaid, to be drawn by oxen in the whole or
partly by oxen and partly by horses, two oxen shall
be estimated as equal to one horse in charging all
the aforesaid tolls, and every mule as equal to one
horse.

Two oxen
equal to one
horse.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this company
shall have the power to prevent travel on the said
road during the construction of the same.

Power given.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
act shall be so construed as to authorise said cor-
poration to issue any note, token, scrip, device or
other evidence of debt to be used as currency, and
that the Legislature reserves to itself the right to
alter or amend this act of incorporation at pleasure.

Construction.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.