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debts of a similar amount maybe sued for and re-
covered: Provided always, That if any person or
persons shall be prosecuted under this section, and
the said prosecution shall not be sustained on the
part of the prosecutor, then and in such case the
person or persons prosecuted as aforesaid, shall re-
ceive from the company the sum of ten dollars, in
lieu of damages for delay and vexatious prosecution,
recoverable as other fines under this act; and if any
toll-gatherer shall knowingly demand and receive
any greater toll, from any person or persons, than
such toll-gather is authorised to demand and receive
by virtue of this act, such toll gather shall forfeit and
pay the sum of twenty dollars for every such offence,
to the use of the county, and for the payment of
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which the said company shall be responsible: And
provided also, That if any person occupying a farm
or lot on the said road, on or adjoining to which a
toll-gate may be erected, shall have ingress and
egress to and from the said turn-pike road, from and
to the said farm or lot, in as many places as he or
she may find convenient, without contravening any
of the provisions of this act.
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28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said
company shall cause posts to be erected and continu-
ed at the intersection of every public road falling
into and leading out of the said turnpike road, with
a board and index hand pointing to the direction of
such roads, on both sides whereof shall be inserted,
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 mile stones to be placed at the side of the
said road, expressing the number of miles from the
capitol, whereon shall be marked in plain legible
characters the respective number of miles which
each stone is distant from the city of Baltimore
aforesaid; and at every gate or turnpike by them to
be fixed on the said road, shall cause the distance
from Baltimore, and the distance from the nearest
gates or turnpikes in each direction, to be marked in
legible characters, designating the number of miles,
and fractions of a mile, on the said gates, or some
other conspicuous place, for the information of tra-
vellers and others using the said road; and if any
person shall wilfully destroy the said posts, boards,
index hands, or mile stones, or deface the same, or
deface the directions made on the said gates, or other
conspicuous places as aforesaid, or shall without
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Index hands
— mould, dirt,
&c. shall not
be thrown in
the road —
penalty — how
to be recover-
ed.
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