LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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such and so many gates or turnpikes upon and across
the said road, as will be necessary to collect the tolls
hereinafter granted to the said company, from all
persons travelling on the same with horses, cattle,
waggons, carts or carriages.

1812.

16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the
said company shall have perfected the said road, or
such parts thereof, from time to time as aforesaid,
and the same shall have been examined, approved and
licenced in manner aforesaid, it shall and may be law-
ful for them to appoint such and so many toll-gather-
ers, as they shall think proper, to collect and receive
of and from every person or persons using the said
road, the tolls and rates hereinafter mentioned, and
to stop any person riding, leading or driving any
horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, sulkey, chair, chaise, phae-
ton, coach, coachee, cart, waggon, wain, sleigh,
sled, or other carriage of pleasure or burthen, from
passing through the said gates or turnpikes, until
they shall have respectively paid for the same; that
is to say, for every ten miles of the said road the fol-
lowing sum 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
sheep, one-eighth of a dollar; for every score of
hogs, one-eighth of a dollar; for every score of cat-
tle, one-fourth of a dollar; for every horse and rider,
or led horse, one-sixteenth of a dollar; for every
chair or chaise with one horse and two wheels, one-
eighth of a dollar; for every coach, stage, waggon,
phaeton or chaise, with two horses and four wheels,
one fourth of a dollar; for either of the last mention-
ed carriages with four horses, three-eighths of a dol-
lar; for every other carriage, under whatsoever
name it may go, the like sum according to the num-
ber of wheels and horses drawing the same; and for
every cart or waggon whose wheels do not exceed
the breadth of four inches, one eighth of a dollar,
for each horse drawing the same; for every cart or
waggon the breadth of whose wheels shall exceed
four inches and not exceeding seven inches, one six-
teenth of a dollar for every horse drawing the same;
for every cart or waggon, the breadth of whose
wheels shall be more than seven inches, and not
more than ten inches, or being. of the breadth of se-
ven inches shall roll ten inches, five cents for every
horse drawing the same; for every cart or waggon
the breadth of whose wheels shall be more than ten
inches, and not exceeding twelve inches, or being

Toll gather-
ers may be ap-
pointed— tolls.