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presidents, managers and companies, to erect and establish scales
and weights at and near such and so many of the gates erected, or
to be erected, in pursuance of this act, as they may think proper,
and where there seem reasonable cause to suspect that any cart,
wagon, or any other carriage of burthen, carries a greater weight
than is or shall be by law allowable, it shall be lawful for the toll-
gatherers, or other persons in their service or employment, to pre-
vent the same from passing such gate or turnpike, until such cart,
wagon, or other carriage of burthen, shall be drawn into the fixed
or erected scales at or near any such gate or turnpike, and the
weight or burthen drawn therein ascertained by weight; and if the
person or persons driving, or having care or charge of any such
cart, wagon, or other carriage of burthen, shall refuse to drive the
same into any such scales for the purpose aforesaid, the person or
persons so refusing shall forfeit and pay to the said president; ma-
nagers and company, any sum not less than five dollars nor more
than eight dollars, to be recovered in the manner hereinafter men-
tioned.
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 there-
on than two tons; that no such carriage the breadth of whose
whose shall not be seven inches, or being six inches or more shall
roll at least ten inches, shall be drawn along the said road with
more than five tons; that no such carriage the breadth of whose
wheels shall not be ten inches or more, or being less shall not
roll at least twelve inches, shall be drawn along the said road
with more than eight tons; that no cart, or other carriage, with two
wheels, the same breadth of wheels as the wagons aforesaid, shall
be drawn along the said road with more than half the burthen or
weight aforesaid; and if any cart, wagon, or carriage of burthen
whatsoever, shall be drawn along the said road with a greater
weight than is hereby allowed, the owner or owners of such carri-
age, if the excess of burthen shall be three hundred weight or up-
wards, shall forfeit and pay four times the customary tolls for the
use of the company; Provided always, that it shall and may be law-
ful for the said company, by their by-laws, to alter any or all the
regulations herein contained respecting the burthens or carriages to
be drawn over the said road, and to substitute other regulations, if
upon experiment such alterations shall be found conducive to the
public good; Provided nevertheless, that such regulations shall not
lessen the burthens of carriages above described.
19. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the western shore be
and he is hereby constituted a court of inspection, and it shall and
may be the duty of the said companies, once every year, and often-
er if required by the court, to lay before the same a correct and
methodical account of their disbursements and expenditures, and
of the amount of tolls collected and received on the said road for
and during the twelve months preceding, and whenever the tolls
shall, during two following years, exceed ten per centum free of all
charges on the institution, the said courts shall at their discretion
hold the excess thus arising above the said ten per centum in re-
serve, to meet any future deficiency, or if in their judgment a con-
tinuance of the then tolls would produce alike annual excess, low-
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Dec. Ses. 1817.
Weights to be
drawn.
Provisos.
Court of in-
spection—may
reduce rate of
tolls.
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