T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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connected with the parties, to meet on the premises to be
condemned on some day to be fixed in said warrant, and
not less than twenty days from the date thereof, and the
said jurors or any twelve of them being so summoned or
such talismen as may be necessary, if twelve do not at-
tend, being convened on the premises in question, shall
be sworn by the sheriff aforesaid, faithfully and truly
to assess the damages sustained by the owner or owners
of said land or materials, by reason of the construction
of said road or their appropriation thereto, without pre-
judice or partiality to either of the parties, and to con-
sider if any, the advantages of said road, especially ac-
cruing from its location through the lands of such
owner in their estimate of said damages, and the in-
quisition of said jurors having been signed and sealed
by said sheriff and jurors, shall be returned to the next
circuit court for Washington county to be ratified and
confirmed or quashed, and it shall and may be lawful
for the said company or the owners of said land to ob-
ject to the said inquisition, for excess or inadequacy of
damages, and for the circuit court aforesaid, to confirm

or reject the said inquisition as to it may seem proper ;
Provided, always, that the said turnpike or plank road
company, shall not occupy and use the said lands fur-
ther than to survey and locate their said road before the
purchase or condemnation money is paid or tendered

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when the compa-
ny shall have completed their said road from the Penn-
sylvania line to the town of Hancock, it shall be lawful
for them, to appoint a toll gatherer to collect and re-
ceive tolls as hereinafter mentioned, and to stop any
person or persons riding, leading or driving any horse,
horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, coach, coaches, sulkey, chair,
chaise, phaeton, cart, wagon, sleigh, sled or any other
carriage of burden, or pleasure, from passing through
the said gate until they shall respectively have paid the

Toll gatherer.

same, that is to say, for every five miles in length of the
said road completed and licensed as aforesaid, the fol-
lowing sums of money, and so in proportion for any
lesser distance, or for any greater or lesser number of
sheep, hogs or cattle, to wit; for every score of hogs,
five cents, for every score of sheep five cents, for every
score of cattle ten cents, for every horse and his rider,
or led horse three cents, for every sulkey, chair or chaise
with one horse and two wheels, six cents, with two
horses, nine cents, for every charriot, coach, phaeton or
dearborn, with one horse and four wheels, ten cents,
for every coach, phaeton or chaise, with two horses and

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Rates.