T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

ceive of and from all and every person or persons
using said road, the tolls and rates hereinafter men-
tioned, and to stop any person riding, leading or
driving any horse, cattle, sheep, hogs, wagon, cart,
carriage, sleigh, coach or any other carriage or
pleasure or burthen, from passing through said gate
until they have respectively paid the same; that is
to say: for every score of sheep, five cents; for every
score of hogs, five cents; for every score of cattle,
ten cents; for every horse ridden, led or running
loose, five cents; for every carriage, cart, wagon,
sleigh or sled, of either pleasure or burthen, with
wheels less than four inches in width, five cents:
for each horse drawing the same, and with wheels
four inches or upwards, three cents; mules and oxen
to be rated as horses.

CHAP. 299.

Rates of toll.

SEC. 8. And Be it enacted, That during the con-
struction of said road the company may obstruct the
trade upon the same, so far as in their judgment
may be necessary to protect it from injury.

Obstruction.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
act shall be construed so as to authorise said cor-
poration to issue any note, token, strip, device or

Construction.

other evidence of debt to be used as a currency, and
the Legislature reserves to itself the right to alter
or amend this act of incorporation at pleasure.

Reservation.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 299.

In force.

AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Posey, of St.
Mary's county, and to provide for the levying a
tax on the assessable property of said county, to
compensate the said Posey for the loss of his
slave William, whose death was occasioned by
an affray in the village of Chaptico, in said
county, in the month of January, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-eight.

Passed March
5, 1860.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the county commissioners of St.

Value of slave
to be assessed.