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C H A P.
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said clear income and profits will not bear a dividend often per centum per annum on the capital stock:
the said company so expended, then it shall and may be lawful to and tor the said president, manager
and company, to increase the tolls herein before allowed so much upon each and every allowance there
of 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 ac-
counts 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 to
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 same in purchasing out the stock of the said road,
XXIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the general assembly of Maryland may, at any period after
the said road shall have been completed, one year's notice being given to the stockholders, pay the
said company the amount of the cost of the said road, with such an interest thereon as shall make
equal, with the tolls received, to ten per centum from the investments of their monies, and that
thenceforward the tolls shall be subject to the regulation of the legislature.
XXV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said company shall cause posts to be erected and continu-
ed at the intersection of every public road failing 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 in-
scribed, 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
the side of the said road, beginning at the distance of one mile from the bounds of the district of
Columbia, 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 the district of Colum-
bia aforesaid; 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 the district of Co-
lumbia aforesaid; and at every gate or turnpike by them to be fixed on the said road, shall cause the
distance from the line of the district of Columbia, and the distance from the nearest gate or turn-
pike in each direction, to be marked in legible characters, designating the number of miles and frac-
tions 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 wilfully 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 permission 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 justice to pay a fine, not exceeding
ten dollars, to be recovered, with. costs, as debts under ten pounds are by law recoverable, which
fine, when. recovered, shall be paid to the treasurer of the company for the use of the said company
XXVI. 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 hand side of the said road, in the passing direction
leaving the other side of the road free and clear for 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.
XXVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be lawful for the said company to ask, demand or re-
ceive, 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
XXVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no toll-gate shall be erected within the distance of one
mile from any of the towns or villages in this act mentioned.
XXIX. 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
by virtue of this act;, or their own by-laws, are authorised to demand and receive for passage in, up
and along, the said road, at any such gate or turnpike, over or upon the same, or any part of the
same, for any terra not exceeding seven years, under such rents, reservations and. conditions, as the
said president and managers, at any meeting of their board, shall agree upon, which grants and de-
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