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And submit the same annually to the stockholders.

shall keep fair and just accounts of all monies received by them from the commissioners, and from the subscribers to the said undertakings, and of all penalties for delay in the payment thereof, and of the amount of the profits on shares that may be forfeited as aforesaid, and of all voluntary contributions and other monies received for or on account of the erecting or freeing the said bridge; and also of all monies by. them expended in the prosecution of the said work; and shall at least once in every year submit such accounts to a general meeting of the stockholders until the said bridge be completed, and until all the costs, charges and expenses, for effecting the same, shall be fully paid and discharged, and the aggregate amount of all such expenses shall be liquidated and ascertained; and if upon such liquidation, or whenever the If the capital whole capital stock of the company shall be nearly expended, stock be inadeit shall be found that the said capital stock is not sufficient to quate, mode, of complete the said bridge according to the true intent and meaning of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the said president, directors and company, at stated or special meetings to be convened according to the provisions of this act or their own by-laws, to increase the number of shares to such extent as shall be deemed sufficient to accomplish the work, and to demand and receive the monies subscribed for such shares, in like manner and under the like penalties as are herein before provided for the original subscription; and if after the said bridge is completed, it shall be found that more to be returned ie Surplus, if any, monies remain in the hands of the treasurer than are neces- stockholders. sary for the payment of all charges and expenses incurred in and about the erecting of the said bridge, the surplus shall be returned as part of the dividend due and payable to the stockholders respectively.

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SECT. x. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- Property of the said, That when a good and complete bridge is erected over completed, to be the said river Susquehanna, at or near McCall's ferry at the vested in the place deemed most convenient as herein before mentioned, the property of the said bridge shall be vested in the said president, directors and company, and their successors, during and unto the end of fifty years, to commence from the time when the bridge is completed; and the said president, directors and company, and their successors, may demand and receive toll from travellers and others, agreeably to the following rates, which shall be written or printed, and published or placed on or near the said bridge for the information of pass sengers; to wit, for every coach, barouch, coachee, landau, Rate of tolls, phaeton or other pleasurable carriage, with four wheels, drawn by four horses, the sum of one dollar; and so in proportion if more horses are added; and for the same carriage with two horses, sixty-two and a half cents; for every loaded waggon with four horses, one dollar; and in proportion if more horses

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be added; and for every carriage of the same description, drawn by two horses, the sum of sixty-two and a half cents; for every chaise, riding chair, sulkey or other two wheel carriage, or a sleigh or sled, with two horses, the sum of sixtytwo and a half cents; and so in proportion if more horses are added to the number herein mentioned; and for the same with one horse, thirty-two cents; for a single horse and rider, eighteen and three-fourth cents; for every horse or mule without a rider, twelve and a half cents; for every foot passenger, six and one fourth cents; for every head of horned cattle, six and one fourth cents; for every living sheep or swine, two cents; empty carriages of burthen to pass for half toll, and a due proportion of the foregoing tolls to be added to the sums chargeable for carriages of burthen laden with more than two tons; and in fixing the tolls of all carriages drawn wholly or in part by oxen, two oxen shall be estimated equal to one horse; Provided always, That children going to or returning from school, shall pass and repass free from tolls, and that nothing in this act contained shall extend to authorize the said company to erect a bridge without the consent of the owners of the ground on each side of and contiguous to the said river where the said bridge may be erected, or to erect the same in such manner as to injure, stop or interrupt the navigation of the said river, by boat, craft or raft; Nett proceeds of and when the said tolls shall exceed fifteen per centum nett cent, to be appro- annual profit, the excess shall compose a fund for the redempredemption of tion of the said bridge, so as to render it free, except that there shall always be a small toll or other revenue, for the keep it in repair. keeping it in repair, this excess shall be laid out in bridge stock, or some other productive funds, and the dividends or annual product shall also be added to this fund, and all private donations for freeing said bridge shall likewise be received If the redeeming and invested in like manner; but if by the operation of the fund be adequate fund herein proposed, there shall be a sufficient sum to free years, bridge to the bridge at a period less than the said term of fifty years,

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then it shall be redeemed and become free, or the stockholders being paid the appraised value thereof and of the profits thereof for the residue of the said term of fifty years, which may then be unexpired; and if the said fund shall be adequate to the purpose last mentioned, the legislature may at any time after the expiration of the said term of fifty years, declare it a free bridge, (providing at the same time the means of keeping it in repair,) and the company shall be obliged to take such sum of money therefor as shall be allowed on a fair appraisement by twelve disinterested persons, to be appointed by the court of the proper county, and to be sworn or affirmed to perform the same impartially, and the like appraisement shall take place when the sinking fund is adequate to the redempappraised value. tion of the bridge, and the establishment of a revenue, if a

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toll be not thought more eligible for keeping the bridge in repair; but if the said bridge shall not be redeemed and paid But if not refor as a free bridge before or at the expiration of the said term tion to continue. of fifty years, the said corporation may and shall continue to hold the same on the terms of this act beyond the said term, and until the same shall be redeemed and paid for in manner herein directed.

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SECT. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Penalty for exThat if the said president, directors and company or their acting illegal successors or any person by their authority shall collect or de- keeping it in remand any greater rates or prices for passing over the said. bridge than what are herein before prescribed and specified, or shall neglect to keep the said bridge in good repair on ten days notice given by or from any magistrate of either of the Before whom recounties of Lancaster or York, they shall for every such of- covered and how fence forfeit and pay the sum of thirty dollars, one moiety thereof for the use of the poor, and the other moiety for the

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use of the person who may sue for the same; Provided always, Proviso. That no suit or action shall be brought unless within thirty

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SECT. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Accounts of toil That the said president, directors and company shall also keep dividends made, a just and true account of all monies received by their several respective collectors of tolls for crossing the said bridge; and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof among all the stockholders, deducting first therefrom all contingent costs and charges, and such proportions of the said income as may be deemed necessary for the growing fund to provide against the decay and for the re-building and repairing the said bridge, and shall on the first Mondays days in May, or in May or November of every year publish the dividend to November, pub be made of the said clear profits thereof among the stockhold- dends. ers, and of the time and place where and when the same shall be paid and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly.. SECT. XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said president and directors shall, at the end of or within three years from the date of the incorporation and within every third year thereafter, lay before the general assembly of this commonwealth, an abstract of their accounts. showing the whole of the capital expended in the prosecution of the said work, and of the income and profits arising from the said bridge for and during the respective periods, together with an exact account of the costs and charges of keeping the said bridge in repair, and all other contingent costs and charges, to the end that the clear annual income and profits thereof may be ascertained.

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SECT. XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, When to-comThat if the said company shall not proceed to carry on the said mence and wher work within the space of five vears after they have been in- completed or

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the passing of this act complete the said bridge, it shall and may be lawful for the legislature of this commonwealth to resume all and singular the rights, liberties and privileges hereby granted to the said company.

SECT. XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, juring the bridge, That if any person or persons shall wilfully or without the orders of the said president, directors and company, pull down, break or destroy with intent to injure any part or parts of the said bridge, or any abutment, pier or piers, or of any of the toll houses, gates, bars or other property of the said corporation appurtenant to or erected or made for the use and convenience of the said bridge, or any persons employed in conducting the business thereof, or shall wilfully without the orders and consent of the said corporation or any person or persons authorized by them, obliterate, deface or destroy the letters, figures or other characters in any written or printed list of rates or tolls affixed or to be affixed in any place or places for the information of passengers and others, or who shall wilfully and maliciously obstruct or impede the passage on or over the said bridge or any part thereof, he, she or they so offending shall each forfeit and pay to the said president, directors and company the sum of thirty dollars, to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace in like manbe recovered and ner, and subject to the same rules and regulations as debts under one hundred dollars may be sued for and recovered; and he, she or they so offending may and shall remain liable to actions at the suit of the said president, directors and company, for further damages, for such torts, if the said sum or sums herein mentioned be not sufficient to repair and satisfy such damages.

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JOHN WEBER, Speaker

of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED the thirtieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

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An ACT to enable the governor to incorporate a company to make an artificial road from Anderson's ferry on the Susque banna, to intersect the turnpike leading from Columbia, to the borough of York, at or near the three mile stone.

SECT. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Jacob

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Leabhart, Christian Stoner, Abraham Flury, junior, John commissioners Newcomer, junior, Philip Gardiner and John Irwin, be and appointed trip they are hereby appointed commissioners to do and perform before the first the several things herein after mentioned, that is to say, they Monday of June shall on or before the first Monday of June next, procure two books and in each of them enter as follows, "We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do promise to pay to the president, managers, and company of the Anderson's ferry and York turnpike road, the sum of fifty dollars for every share of stock in said company set opposite to our respective names in such manner and proportions, and at such times as shall be determined by the president and managers of the said company in pursuance of an act of the general assembly entitled, An act to enable the governor to incorporate a company, for making an artificial road from Anderson's ferry, on the Susquehanna, to intersect the turnpike leading from Columbia, to the borough of York, at or near the three mile stone," and shall thereupon give notice in two of the public newspapers, To give notice of one in York and one in Lancaster, for four weeks at least, of the time and the times and places when and where the said books shall be the books. kept open to receive subscriptions for the stock of the said company, at which respective times and places some two of the said commissioners shall attend and shall permit and suffer all persons of lawful age who shall offer to subscribe in the who may subsaid books in their own name or names of any other persons who shall duly authorize the same, for any number of shares in the said stock, and the said books shall be kept open re- Books to be kept spectively for the purpose aforesaid at least six hours in every shares are subjuridical day, for the space of six days, or until the said books shall have two hundred shares therein subscribed; and if at the expiration of the said six days the books aforesaid shall not have the number of shares aforesaid therein subscribed, the said commissioners may adjourn from time to time, until May adjourn the whole number of shares shall be subscribed, of which ad- time. journments the commissioners aforesaid shall give such public notice as the occasion may require; and when the whole number of shares subscribed in all the said books shall amount to two hundred the same shall be closed; Provided always, That Proviso. every person offering to subscribe in the said, books in his own name or any other name, shall previously pay to the attending commissioners the sum of five dollars for every share to be, subscribed, out of which shall be defrayed the expenses attending the taking such subscriptions and other incidental charges and the remainder shall be paid over to the treasurer of the corporation as soon as the same shall be organized and the officers chosen as herein after mentioned.

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SECT. II. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- Twenty persons said, That when twenty persons or more shall have subscribed subscribed seventy-five shares of the said stock, the commissioners shall seventy five

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