1841

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 241.

and possessed by the several turnpike companies incor-
porated by an act of Assembly, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and four, chapter fifty-one, en-
titled, an act to incorporate companies to make several
turnpike roads through Baltimore county, and for other
purposes, and shall be governed by the same regula-
tions, and subject to the same fines, penalties and re-
strictions as said companies now are, where the same
are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

Commissioners
of Washington
county to sub-
scribe.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
board of Washington county, be and they are hereby
authorised to subscribe for such number of shares not
exceeding two hundred, in the capital stock of the
company hereby incorporated, that they may deem
expedient and proper to be subscribed for, in the name
and for the benefit of Washington county, and to be
represented at all meetings of the stockholders of said
Company by the county commissioners, for the time
being, or by such person or persons as may be duly
authorised by them.

To erect toll-
gate.

Proviso.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said company
shall have the power to erect upon said road one toll
gate; provided, said gate be not erected within less
than two miles from the town of Hagerstown, and
they are hereby authorised to appoint such and so
many toll gatherers as they shall think proper, who
are empowered to collect and receive of and from all
and every person and persons using said road, the
tolls and rates hereinafter mentioned, and to stop any
person riding, leading, or driving any horses, cattle,
sheep, sulkey, chaise, phaeton, coach, coachee, cart,
wagon, sleigh, sled, or other carriage of pleasure or
burthen, from passing through said gate, until they
have respectively paid to the same, that is to say, the
following sums of money, and so in proportion for
any greater or lesser number of sheep, hogs, or cattle,

Tolls regulated.

namely: for every score of sheep, five cents; for every
score of hogs, five cents; for every score of cattle, ten
cents; for every horse and his rider, or led horse, three
cents; for every sulkey or chaise, with one horse and
two wheels, five cents; for every chariot, coach, stage,
wagon, phaeton, or chaise, with two horses and four
wheels, ten cents; for either of the carriages last men-
tioned, with four horses, twenty cents; for every other
vehicle, by whatever name it may be known, the like
sums according to the number of wheels and hor-
ses drawing the same; for every cart or wagon,
whose wheels do not exceed the breadth of four
inches, fire cents for each horse drawing the same;