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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Weight
drawn.
Furthen to
be drawn.
Proviso.
Repair—
penalty on neg-
lect.
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17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose of
ascertaining the weight that may be drawn along and on the
said road in any cart, wagon, or other carriage of burthen,
it shall and may be lawful for the said president, managers
and company, to erect and establish scales and weights at or
near such and so many of the gates erected or to be erected in
pursuance of this act, as may be by them thought necessary,
and where there may seem reasonable cause to suspect that
any cart, wagon, or other carriage of burthen, carries a
greater weight than is by this act allowed, it shall be lawful
or the toll-gatherers, or any persons in their service or em-
ployment, to prevent the same from passing such gate until
such wagon, or other carriage of burthen, shall be drawn into
the fixed or erected scales at or near such gate or turnpike, and
the weight or burthen drawn therein ascertained by weighing,
and if the person or persons having charge of the same shall re-
fuse to drive the same into any such scales for the purpose,
aforesaid, the person or persons so refusing shall forfeit and
pay the president, managers and company, any sum not less
than five dollars, nor more than eight dollars, to be recovered
in the common way that debts of that description are recover-
able.
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no wagon or other
carriage with four wheels, the breadth of whose wheels shall
not be four inches, shall be drawn along the said road with a
greater weight therein than two and a half tons; that no such
carriage the breadth of whose wheels shall not be seven inch-
es, or being six inches or more shall role at least ten inches,
shall be drawn along the said road with more than five tons ;
and that no such carriage the breadth whereof shall not be ten
inches or more, or being less, shall not roll at least twelve inch-
es, shall be drawn along the said road with more than eight
tons; that no cart or other carriage with two wheels, the same
breadth as the wagons aforesaid, shall be drawn along the said
road with more than half the burthen of weight aforesaid; and
if any cart, wagon, or carriage of burthen whatever, shall
be drawn along the said road with a greater weight than here-
by allowed, the owner or owners of such carriage, if the ex-
cess weight shall be more than three hundred weight, shall
forfeit and pay four times the customary toll, for the use of the
said company; Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful
for the said company, by their by laws, to alter and change all
of any of the aforesaid regulations herein contained respecting
the burthen of carriages to be drawn over the said road, and to
establish other regulations, if upon experiment; such alterations
shall be conducive to the. public good; Provided nevertheless
that such regulations shall not lessen the burthen of the car-
riages above described.
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said company
shall neglect to keep the said road in good and perfect order and
repair for the space of fifteen days, and information shall be
given to any justice of the peace of the county where the said
road is complained of, such justice shall issue a precept, di-
rected to any constable, commanding him to summon three dis-
interested freeholders, to meet on said road thus complained of
at a time to be mentioned in said precept, of which meeting
notice shall be given to the keepers of the gates nearest there
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