Chap. 217.—An ACT to amend the charter of the Richmond and Hen-
rico railroad, and turnpike and graded road company.

Approved March 29, 1877.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the act passed March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seven-
ty-three, entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act ap-
proved March twenty-three, 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 rail-
road, turnpike, 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 hereafter to demand and receive tolls, by the mile,
on all conveyances, horses, live stock, persons and things,
travelling over the said road, as follows: All carriages or
buggies shall pay two cents per horse per mile each way ;
burthen teams, two cents per borse per mile, except thore
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 one
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
exceed tuat which is allowed to thé Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad company per mile. The collectors of tolls of this
company may refuse to let any person or thing pass on the
company’s work until 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 possession of such thing, shall forfeit to the com-
pany ten dollars; and the like forfeiture shall be incurred
when any person or thing, subject to the toll of this com-

any, is passed through any private gate, bars, fence, or pub-
ic road, for the purpose of ovading the payment of the toll,
and so much of said road as they have traveled or intend to
travel; such fine shall be recoverable on a warrant, before a
single justice of the peace. The said road having been di-
vided by this amendment into sections of one mile each, for
the purpose of charging toll thereon, no persons are allowed
to be charged for a greater number of miles or sections than
they have traveled or intend to travel.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.