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Timestamp: 2019-12-13 23:43:14
Document Index: 404807676

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 6', '§ 7', '§ 8', '§ 9', '§ 11', '§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 6', '§ 7', '§ 8']

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quisites to be charged for the use of the same; to take shares of stock therein, on the part of the county, and from time to time, alter and change the
tolls agreeably to the terms and stipulations set forth in the charter: Provided, however, that no county court shall be bound to contribute or appropriate
any money for the construction of said works, except by subscriptions of stock;
and provided, also, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to compel any county court to take stock therein.
§ 4. Any person or persons wishing to apply for a charter under the provisions of this act, shall give notice of such intended application, by advertisement
inserted for at least three weeks prior to the application being made, in some
newspaper printed in the county where the court is to be held, or by six written
or printed advertisements put up at six of the most public places in said county,,
at least three weeks before the term of the court, to which the application is to be
§ 5. No charter shall be granted by the county courts under this act, when
one third of the taxable inhabitants of the county where application ismade, shall
remonstrate against granting said charter; nor shall the courts aforesaid grant
any charter contemplated by this act, at the same term at which the application
may have been made for the same.
§ 6. All applications made to the county courts, for the purpose aforesaid,
shall be made at the cost of the applicants, and the said courts shall have discretionary power,to determine the term or period of the charter, the utility of the
improvements to be made, and the tolls to be allowed and paid for the use thereof.
But no charter shall be granted to erect any bridge, or make any causeway, unless, in the judgment of the court, said bridge or causeways will cost more than
§ 7. After the completion of any such bridge, road, &c, it shall be lawful for
the owner or owners thereof, to charge and receive for the use thereof, such rates
and tolls, as may have been allowed by the terms of the charter in such behalf
agreed upon, and may sue for and recover the same by action of debt; to recover damages for trespasses committed on the said bridge or road, &c; provided the
same is in good repair at the time of the trespass; and generally to have all such
rights, privileges and abilities in that behalf, as a natural person could, or should
have in his own right.
§ 8. ' That in all cases, when the line dividing counties shall be the middle
of a creek, swamp or other impassable place, the county court of either county
may grant power to erect such bridges, causeways, <fcc, as is contemplated in
the first section of this act, as if said creek, swamp, &c, were wholly within the
limits of said county.
§ 9. It shall be the duty of the county courts aforesaid to cause the said
bridges, roads or causeways to be inspected, from time to time, by some suitable
person; and whenever found impassable, or in bad condition for travelling thereon,
it shall be declared open to the public, and no tolls shall be demanded for the use
thereof, until the proper repairs shall have been made; and whenever said repairs
shall not be made or commenced within one month thereafter, the charter granted by the county court for its construction, under authority of this act, shall cease
and determine, and the said bridge, roads or causewfiy, shall thereupon revert to
§. 10. All individuals, companies or corporations, chartered under this act,
shall, before opening any bridge, road or causeway for traveling thereon, file in
the office of the clerk of the county court, correct plats of the improvements they shall have made, with the accounts and vouchers of the cost of erecting or constructing the same, which shall be certified by affidavit of its proper
officers, taken before some judge or justice of the peace.
§ 11.    The county court shall pass upon the accounts and vouchers rendered.
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Transcript 16 LAWS OF quisites to be charged for the use of the same; to take shares of stock therein, on the part of the county, and from time to time, alter and change the tolls agreeably to the terms and stipulations set forth in the charter: Provided, however, that no county court shall be bound to contribute or appropriate any money for the construction of said works, except by subscriptions of stock; and provided, also, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to compel any county court to take stock therein. § 4. Any person or persons wishing to apply for a charter under the provisions of this act, shall give notice of such intended application, by advertisement inserted for at least three weeks prior to the application being made, in some newspaper printed in the county where the court is to be held, or by six written or printed advertisements put up at six of the most public places in said county,, at least three weeks before the term of the court, to which the application is to be made. § 5. No charter shall be granted by the county courts under this act, when one third of the taxable inhabitants of the county where application ismade, shall remonstrate against granting said charter; nor shall the courts aforesaid grant any charter contemplated by this act, at the same term at which the application may have been made for the same. § 6. All applications made to the county courts, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be made at the cost of the applicants, and the said courts shall have discretionary power,to determine the term or period of the charter, the utility of the improvements to be made, and the tolls to be allowed and paid for the use thereof. But no charter shall be granted to erect any bridge, or make any causeway, unless, in the judgment of the court, said bridge or causeways will cost more than five hundred dollars. § 7. After the completion of any such bridge, road, &c, it shall be lawful for the owner or owners thereof, to charge and receive for the use thereof, such rates and tolls, as may have been allowed by the terms of the charter in such behalf agreed upon, and may sue for and recover the same by action of debt; to recover damages for trespasses committed on the said bridge or road, &c; provided the same is in good repair at the time of the trespass; and generally to have all such rights, privileges and abilities in that behalf, as a natural person could, or should have in his own right. § 8. ' That in all cases, when the line dividing counties shall be the middle of a creek, swamp or other impassable place, the county court of either county may grant power to erect such bridges, causeways,