LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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mantled, paid or collected, until it shall have been cer-
tified by the said freeholders or a majority of them, that
the said defective part or parts of the said road have been
put into good and perfect order and repair as aforesaid ;
and if any of the keepers of the gates aforesaid shall
take or attempt to exact tolls for the intermediate distance
between the gates aforesaid, from any traveller, during
the time the road shall continue out of repair, such keep-
er shall forfeit and pay to the person who shall prosecute
for the same, the sum of five dollars, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace, as debts of equal amount
are or may be by law recoverable; but if the same road
shall not be put into good repair before the next ensuing
court of quarter sessions of the proper county, the said
justices shall certify and send a copy of the said inqui-
sition to the justices of the said court, and the said court
shall thereupon cause process to issue, and bring in the
bodies of the person or persons entrusted by the compa-
ny with the care and superintendance of such part of the
said road as shall be found defective as aforesaid, and
shall direct a bill of indictment to be sent to the grand
inquest, against the person or persons entrusted as afore-
said; and upon conviction, shall give such judgment ac-
cording to the nature and aggravation of the neglect, as
the said court in their discretion shall judge proper ;
Provided, the fine in no instance shall be less than twen-
ty nor exceeding one hundred dollars, and the tines so
to be imposed, shall be recovered in the same manner as
fines for misdemeanors are usually recovered in the said
county, and shall be paid to the supervisors of the high-
ways of the place wherein the offence was committed, to
be applied to repairing such highways as the township
or county is bound to repair at the public expence there-
of.

Dec. Sess.
1813.

15. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, by the

authority aforesaid, That the president and managers of
the said company shall keep fair and just accounts of all
monies which shall be received by them from the said
commissioners, and from the subscribers for the stock of
the said company, on account of their several subscrip-
tions, and of all penalties for the delay in the payment
thereof, and of the amount of the profit on the shares
which may be forfeited as aforesaid, and also of all mo-
nies by them to be expended in the prosecution of their
said works, and shall once at least in every year submit
such accounts to a general meeting of the stock-holders
until the said road shall be completed, and until all the
costs, charges and expences of effecting the same shall
be fully paid and discharged, and the aggregate amount
of such expences shall be liquidated and ascertained, and

if upon such liquidation, or whenever the whole capital

stock, of the said company shall be nearly expended, it

Accounts.
Shares may be
increased.