The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1813-08-25


shall be conclusive between the parties :;
and copy thereof shall DC delivered 10
each OF the parties who may be ne sideIt in
the district OF Columbia, and the sum so
awarded and assessed being paid 10 the
SAID court, tor the use of tho party entitled
thereto, the said president and directors
may proceed to take and carry away the
SAID materials SO valued, for the pu pose
aforesaid; and the said president, directors
ana company shall pay the said marshal five
dollars Tor his servicesin suipmoning and
empannelling the said jury, and taking and
returning said inquest, and TWO dollars 10
each OF the Jurors so sworn.
Sec. z. .4nd be IL further enacted, That
Tor the purpose OF ascertaining the weight
that may be drawn along the said road, in
any Wagon, cart or other carriage OF bur-
den, 1t shall and may be lawful for the said
president, directors and company to erect
and establish scales and weights, at or near
the gate erected, or TO be erected, i'll pur-
suanceNof this act, as they may think PRO-
Per; and where there may seem reasona-
BILE cause to suspect that any cart, Wagon
or other carriage ofburden, carries grea-
ter weight than is or shall be by law allow
able, il shall be lawful for the toll gathc-
rers, Oh other persons In their service OF
employment to prevent the same from pass
ing such gate or turnpike, until such cart,
Wagon or carriage of burden Shall be
drawn into the fixed or erected scales, at
or near any such gate or turnpike, and the
weight or burden drawn therein ascertain
ed by weighing and if the person or per-
sons driving or having care or charge of
any such cart, Wagon or other carriage OF
burden shall refuse TO drive the same into
any such scales for the purpose aforesaid,
the person or persons so refusing shall for
felt and pay the said president, directors
and company any sum not less than FIVE
dollars, nor more than eight dollars, to be
recovered in ,ie manner hereinafter men
toned.
Sec. 8. ind be it further 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
OF than three tons weight; that no such
carriage, the breadth Of whose wheels
shall not be seven .inchcs, or being six
inches or more, shall roll at least ten inch
cs, shall be drawn along 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 pot
along the said road with more than eight
tons; that no cart or 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 burden or
weight aforesaid and if any cart, Wagon
or carriage, of burden whatever, shall be
drawn along the said road with greater
weight than is hereby allowed, the owner
or owners of such carriage, if the excess
of burden shall be three hundred weight or
upwards shall forfeit and pay four times
the customary tolls, for the use OF the
company. Provided aizvays, That it shall
and may be lawful for the said company by
their bye-laws to alter any OF all the regu-
lations herein contained, respecting the
burdens or carriages to be drawn over the
said road, and to substitute other regula-
tons If upon experiment such alterations
shall be .und conducive to the public
good: Provided neOertheiesS, That such
regulations shall not lessen the burdens OF
carriages above described.
Sec. 9. Ind be IL further enacted, That
the president and directors of the said
company shall keep, or cause to be kept,
fair and Just accounts Of all monies to be
received by them from the said commits
sioners FIRST hereIn named, and from the
stockholders or subscribers to the said I'M
dertaking, on account Of their several sub
scriptions or shares, and of all monies by
them to be expended in the prosecution Of
their said work, and shall once at least in
every year submit such accounts to gene
raj meeting Of the stockholders, until the
said road shall be completed, and until the
costs, charges and expences Of effecting
the same shall be fully liquidated, paid and