Chap. 174.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact an Act Approved March 23,
1872, entitled an Act to Amend and Re-enact the ninth Section of the
Act approved March 31st, 1871, to Incorporate the Richmond and Hen-
rico Railroad, Turnpike and Graded Road Company.

' In force March 14, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act ap-
proved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two,
entitled an act to amend and re-enact the ninth section of the
act approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-
one, to incorporate the Richmond and Henrico Railroad, Turn-
pike and Graded Road Company, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 9. The president and directors of said company shall be
authorized to demand and receive tolls after they shall have
first obtained the consent of the proper court, as provided in
the eighth section of the sixty-first chapter of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty, on all conveyances, horses, live
stock, persons and things traversing the said road, as follows:
all carriages or buggies shall pay two cents per horse per mile
each way; burthen teams, two cents per horse per mile, except
those hauling wood, which shall pay one and one-half cents
per horse per mile, and be allowed to return free with less than
three hundred pounds; horse with rider, three-fourths of a
cent per mile each way; drove horses, mules or cattle, one-half
cent per mile; hogs and sheep, one-fourth cent per mile; and
for carrying freight and passengers, compensation not to ex-
ceed that which is allowed to the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road Company per mile. The collectors of tolls for this com-
pany may refuse to let any person or thing pass on the company's
work until the toll be paid. If any person or thing pass the
toll-gate, or other proper place of payment, without paying or
tendering the toll, such person, or the owner or person in pos-
session of such thing, shall forfeit to the company ten dollars ;
and the like forfeiture shall be incurred when any person or
thing subject to the toll of this company is passed through
any private gate, bars, fence or public road, for the purpose of
evading the payment of the toll; and it shall be held to be
for the purpose of evading the payment of the toll, when any
person, after travelling gne or more miles on the turnpike of
this company, shall turn"off on a road that leads less directly
to any city or town than said turnpike does, or pass through
any private gate, bars or fence, with the intention of reaching
such city or town. Said fine shall be recoverable on a warrant
before a single justice of the peace.
2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.