Chap. 211.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1227 of the
code of Virginia, in relation to penalty for passing on com-
pany’s work without paying toll.

Approved March 4, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section twelve hundred and twenty-seven of the code
of Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven shall
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1227. A collector of tolls for any company may refuse
to let any person or thing pass on the company’s work
until the toll be paid, and the collector or other author-
ied officer of any canal company may examine, upon
oath, any person having charge of any vessel, merchan-
dise or thing subject td tolls or compensation, for the

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purpose of ascertaining the quantity or amount thereof,
for which purpose such collector or other officer may
administer an oath, and any person answering falsely
upon such examination shall be liable to prosecution and
punishment for perjury, as provided by law. If any per-
son or thing pass the toll-gate, or other proper place for
payment without the toll being paid or tendered, such
person, or the owner or person in possession of such thing,
shall forfeit to the company ten dollars, and the like for-
feiture shall be incurred where any person or thing sub-
ject to the toll of a turnpike company is passed through
any private gate, bars, or fence, or by any other way, for
the purpose of evading the payment of the toll, and the
like forferture shall be incurred where any person or thing sub-
ject to the toll of a turnpike company upon approaching a toll-
gate be left standing or hitched at or near said gate to avoid
passing such gate for the purpose of evading the payment of the
toll. Any such collector, knowing of a violation of this
section, shall immediately make it known to the president
or one of the directors. If he fail so to do, he shall for-
feit to the company twenty dollars, which may, if so much
of his compensation remain unpaid, be deducted there-
from.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.