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Dec. Sess.
1815.
May sell.
Proprietors
may form a
company —
rights—privi-
leges and pen-
alties.
Stock may
be increased.
Not being
commenced or
completed.
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cents; each stage passenger three cents; each foot passenger,
three cents; each horse without a rider three cents; cattle each
three cents; sheep and hogs each one cent
4. AND BEIT ENACTED, That the said heirs, devisees
'or other legal representatives, of the said Edward Norwood
and Samuel Norwood, shall have full power and authority, if
they think proper, to sell and dispose of the said ferry landing
and the lands immediately thereto appertaining, to any person
or persons, body corporate or politic, who are hereby authoris-
ed to purchase and hold the same, with all the privileges and
appendages to the same belonging, and the purchaser and pur-
chasers thereof, and his or their heirs successors and assigns
shall be and hereby are authorised and empowered to erect the
said bridge, and ask, demand and receive, the like tolls as
aforesaid, for the passage of the said bridge, and in the same
manner as if they were severally named herein, and as fully
and as effectually as if they were the present proprietors there-
of.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the present proprietor
of the said ferry, or any person or persons claiming under
them, shall have full power and authority to form and create
themselves into a corporate body, to sell and dispose of shares
in the said properly and tolls, and make such rules and regula-
tions for the government and management thereof as a majori-
ty of said company may think proper; Provided the same be not
contrary to the laws of this state, and provided also, that in
case the said company, or proprietors of the said bridge, shall
suffer the same to go out of repair, or to become unsafe or un-
fit for the transportation of passengers, that then the said tolls
shall cease, and not be demanded till the said bridge shall be
substantially repaired; and if the said proprietors, or their as-
signs, shall ask, demand or receive, any greater tolls for cross-
ing the said bridge than are rated and fixed as aforesaid, they
shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of fifty
dollars, to be recovered before a single magistrate, one half to
the. informer, and the other half for the use of the county.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any company
or body corporate shall become the proprietors of the said fer-
ry landing, and shall undertake to erect the bridge authorised
by this act, it shall and may be lawful for the said company or
body corporate to increase the stock of said company to an
amount equal to the payment of the purchase money, for the
ferry landing, and the expense of erecting the bridge aforesaid;
and the purchasers of such stock shall have all the rights and
privileges and shall be subject to ail the conditions allowed and
prescribed by the act incorporating said company.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said bridge shall
not be commenced within nine months, and completed within
twenty months from the passage of this act, that then and in that
case all the privileges hereby granted shall cease.
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