PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

the said county courts are hereby retired to take cog-
nizance of, and act upon inquisitions returned to them
as aforesaid, within three days after the time limited and
allowed herein for repairing said roads shall have expired;
and in all cases wherein the jury aforesaid shall be of
opinion that the persons complaining had reasonable
grounds of complaint, they shall award the costs of the
proceeding to be paid by the company, though they may
not give a verdict against them.

CHAP. 34.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That each of said justices
shall receive two dollars, and each of the persons afore-
said shall be entitled to one dollar, for waking said in-
quisition.

Justices to re-
ceive $2 per
diem.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the, fine imposed by
the thirty-first section of the act of November session,
one thousand eight hundred and four, chapter fifty-one,
shall be, and the same is hereby extended to the putting
or placing any obstacle or material of any kind upon
either of the aforementioned roads, or within the limits
thereof, and suffering the the same to remain for the
space of two days, and the said fine shall and may be
imposed for each and every day, after the first imposi-
tion thereof, during which the party so placing the said
obstacle or material shall allow the same to remain; and
the president, managers and company of the said road,
or either of them, may remove the said obstacle or ma-
terials at the expense of the said party, to be recover-
ed in the same manner as the fine before referred to it
made recoverable.

Fine for ob-
tructing.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the president, mana-
gers and company of either of the turnpike road compa-
nies, before referred to, or of any other turnpike road com-
pany in this State, be and they are hereby respectively au-
thorised and empowered to lower the rate of tolls, or of
any of them, in their discretion,at any or all of the gates on
either or all of said roads, and to fix the rate of said tolls,
or any of them, at any amount less than they are now
authorised to receive by their respective charters, and
to change the amount of said tolls or any of them, from
time to time, as in their respective judgments may seem
expedient; provided, that said tolls shall in no case be
increased beyond the rates now allowed.

To regulate

tolls.

Proviso.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the twenty-sixth sec-
tion of the act passed at November session, eighteen
hundred and four, chapter fifty-one, and every other
matter and thing in said act, or in any act of this Gene-
ral Assembly, inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Inconsistent
laws repealed.