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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0174 and id is 1 raw text is: ) Be lnitbe~dth oventh Year of the CQmkaonwed1t h;
' which l .she is not entitled, or ' o any thing in ther, passa
ith intenttoleisen or evadwo te tolls hereby granted, - he, orshe
sit offending shall forreit andpoy the :sum or five dolari!to the'
uv qr the eonatny, to be recovered with costs, as other' po a.
ties are by li 0 redowerlible.
egulatil.n that ..19. Iletfirthev, enacted, That all. personas, riding on hori ,'
h~rse back, or back, or, drivitng any eart, waggon or carriage, or other thin1
driving carriages slung the said road, in passing any other person or thing, shal
shail k-ep to the keep to their right hand in pasaag direction ; and any person
jriM hand. oflending herein, being a free person, shall be fined in a sum not
exceeding two dollars, to the use of the party injured, to be re-,
covered with costs, in the same manner that other ponalties are
by law reeoveralile; and ir the offrender against this, or the pre-
ceding eetion of. this ant, shull be a slave, such offiender, on con.
viction before a justiee of the peace, shall be punished with
stripes not exceeding ten lashes. -
Tabre of tolls to 20. lie itfurther enacted, That the president and directors
be kept at each shall cause a table oftoils, payable at eaei gate, to be Ponstant-
soil gate. ly kept thereat, to be 5hewn to any person demanding the same;
and, upon failure herein, any person or thing, chargeable with
toll by virtue of this act shall have liberty to pass such gate with.
out payment ; and any toll gatherer lho shall refuse such pas.
sage shall be liable to the action of the party injured.
Vpon what n. 21. And be it further enacted, That if tho sid company shall
ried of the com not proceed to carry on the said work within two years after the
pany. the Legis- passage ofthls aot, and shall not, within seven years thereafter,
latur c may *e. complete the said road acordiag to the true meninamg of this act,
sums the prITI-
ler granted by in either of those cases, the Legislature of this State may resume
I act. all the rights and privileges hereby granted to the said company.
The tolls to be 22. And be itfurther enacted, That the tolls herein allowed
subject to the shall be subject to the control of the Legislature, at the end of
control of the every seven years after the completion of the said road, or at any
Legislatitre, at
what time, and time thereafter: Provided, that they shall not be so reduced
to what extent. as to make them nelt less than fifteen per centum, on the whole
stock of the said company, in any one year, to the share holders
therein.
Commencement. 23. WTis act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
CHAP. XXXIX.
J An Act incorporaling a Company to establish a Turnpike Road,
commencing at any point on the route laid doyan for the Lees-
burg 'urnpike Road, and extending, towards the lalls' Bridges
as far as the boundary of the District of Columbia.
LPassed February 18th, 1813.]
books, for re. E it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall be law.
ceiving aubscrip. *i.Iful to open books, at George-Town, under the direction of
signs, at what John Iloye, John Mason, John W. Bronaugh, Oeorge Washing,
placesiand by Jon hoyi, n a Wi a gli, uere alren.
whom, to be ton Bnwic ant William Stuart; at Alexandria, under the direc-
op~ned, tion of Jacob l1o(fman, John Janney, Phineas Janney, George
Deneale, Robert Young, anti Francis Peyton; at Leesburg, un-
der the direction of John Littleohn, Samuel Murry, fernard
Hough, Armistead T. MIason, Charles Ilurts and John McCor.
mick, or any three of them; at Charlestown# inder the direotomi
of William Tates Thomas Greggst jun. and George W Auam-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0174&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)