term of 40 years. Rates of toll in ti e com the town of Pitsburgh, in the county of Allegheny as aforesaid, pany for the the property of the same shall be vested in the said incorporated company, their successors and assigns during and unto the end of forty years, to commence from the time the said bridge is completed, and the said company, their successors and assigns are hereby impowered to erect gates, and demand and receive tolls as follows; To wit, for every foot passenger two cents; for every carriage of whatever description used for the purpose of trade or agriculture having four wheels, and drawn by six horses, thirty-seven and a half cents; for every such carriage, having four wheels, and drawn by five horses, thirty-one cents; for every such carriage, having four wheels, and drawn by four horses, twenty-five cents; for every such carriage, having four wheels, and drawn by three horses, twenty cents; for every such carriage, having four wheels, and drawn by two horses, eighteen cents; for every such carriage, having four wheels, and drawn by one horse, sixteen cents; for every carriage of whatever description used for the purpose of personal accommodation or pleasure, having four wheels, and drawn by four horses, thirty-seven and a half cents; for every such carriage, having four wheels, and drawn by two horses, twenty-five cents; for every such carriage having four wheels, and drawn by one horse, eighteen cents, for every carriage of whatever description used for the purpose of trade or agriculture, having two wheels, and drawn by four horses, twenty cents; for every such carriage, having two wheels, and drawn by three horses, eighteen cents; for every such carriage, having two wheels, and drawn by two horses, fourteen cents; for every such carriage, having two wheels, and drawn by one horsé, ten cents; for every chair or other two wheeled carriage of pleasure, for every horse used therein, twelve and a half cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by four horses, twenty cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by three horses, eighteen cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by two horses, sixteen cents; for every sleigh or sled drawn by one horse, ten cents, for every horse, mare or gelding without a rider three cents, for every horse, mare or gelding, with a rider, six cents; for every carriage drawn by oxen, or partly by oxen and partly by horses, to be rated in proportion of two oxen for one horse; every head of horned or muley cattle, two cents; every Proviso as to head of sheep or swine one cent; Provided, That any person or funerals, &c. persons attending funerals or any detachment of the military of this state, shall at all times be exempt from paying said toll: And Provided further that when the said toll shall exceed fifteen dividends per cent nett annual profit, the excess shall compose a fund per cent, the for the redemption of the bridge, so as to render it free, save excess shall that there shall always be a small toll or other revenue for keep go to freing it in repair. This excess shall be laidout in bridge stock ing the When the exceed 15 bridge. or other productive funds and the dividends or annual product ers to be be redeem shall be added to this fund, and all private donations for freeing the bridge shall also be received and invested in like manner; but if by the operation of the fund herein proposed, there shall be a sufficient sum to free the bridge at a period less than the said forty years, then it shall be redeemed and become free, on the stockholders being paid the appraised value thereof, and of Stockholdthe profits thereof for the residue of the said term of forty years, paid the ap which may then be unexpired, and if the said fund shall not be praised vaadequate to the purpose last mentioned, the legislature may at lue of the the expiration of the said forty years, declare it a free bridge, bridge, &c. (providing at the same time the means of keeping in repair) and Bridge may the company shall be obliged to take such sum of money there ed by the lefor as shall be allowed on a fair appraisement by disinterested gislature. persons to be chosen in such manner as shall be directed by law, the like appraisement shall take place when the sinking fund is adequate to the redemption of the bridge, and the establishment of a revenue, if a toll be not thought more eligible for keeping the bridge in repair; but if the said bridge shall not be redeemed and paid for as a free bridge, before or at the expiration of If the bridge the said term of forty years, the said corporation may and shall in 40 years, continue to hold the same on the terms of this act beyond the the company said term, and until the same shall be redeemed and paid for in may continmanner herein directed. Terms of re demption, be not freed ue to hold the same. SECT. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the said company, their successors or assigns, or any per- Penalty on son employed by them shall collect or demand any greater rate taking illeor prices for the passing over the said bridge, than what is here- gal toll, &c, in before prescribed, or shall neglect to keep the said bridge in repair, he or they shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of said county, one half thereof to be paid to the over- How recov. seers of the poor of the borough of Pittsburgh for the use of the ered. Appropriapoor of said borough of Pittsburgh, and the other half to the use tion of the of the person who shall sue for the same: Provided always, That forfeitures. no suit shall be brought in this respect, unless within fifteen days No suit to be brought Sundays excepted, after the offence may be committed: And pro- after fificen vided also, That the judgment of the said justice in any such case days. brought before him, shall be liable to reversion, either by appeal Appeal alto the court of common pleas of said county, if the merits of the lowed. case be contested or by certiorari, if the legality of his proceedings or of his jurisdiction be disputed. SECT. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said president, managers and company, shall keep a just Accom account of all monies received by their several collectors of tolls tolls recei for crossing the said bridge, and shall declare and make a divi-ved to be dend of the income and profits thereof, among all the subscri- And divibers to the said company's stock in proportion to their respec- dends de-, tive shares, first deducting all contingent costs and charges, and kept. clared and paid. of Notice such proportion of the said income as may be deemed necessary for a fund to provide against the decay, the repairing, or the rebuilding of the said bridge, as time and accident may render necessary; and shall, on or before the first Monday of July of every thereof to be year, publish in the public papers of Pittsburgh, Washington, given. Uniontown and Greensburgh as aforesaid, the dividend to be made of the clear profits arising from the tolls among the stockholders, and of the time and place, when and where the same shall be paid, and cause the same to be paid accordingly. Penalty on injuring the property of said corpo. ration, SECT. XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall wilfully pull down, break or destroy any part or parts of the said òridge or any toll house, gates, bars or other property of the said corporation, appur. tenant to or erected for the use and convenience of the said bridge, or the person employed in conducting the business thereof, or shall wilfully, and without the consent and orders of the said corporation, or any persons authorized by them, deface or destroy the letters or figures, or other characters in any written or printed list of the rates or tolls affixed in any place or places for the information of passengers and others, or who shall wilfully or maliciously obstruct or impede the passage on or over the said bridge, or any part or parts thereof, he, she or they so of fending, shall, and each of them forfeit and pay for every such offence, to the said corporation, the sum of twenty dollars, to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace, as debts of like amount are recoverable, and he, she or they so offending, shall remain liable to actions at the suit of the said corporation for such wrongs, if the said sum or sums herein mentiNo suit to be oned be not sufficient to repair or satisfy said damages: Provided albrought af ways, That no suitshall be brought unless within thirty days after such offence shall have been committed, if the offender can so soon be discovered, otherwise within ten days after the president and managers do ascertain the person or persons so offending: Provided also, That the judgment of the said justice in any such case, shall be liable to revisal, either by appeal to the court of common pleas, of the said county, if the merits of the case be contested, or by certiorari if the legality of his proceedings or of his jurisdiction be disputed. How recovered. ter 30 days, &c. Appeal granted. Accounts, SECT. XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said president and managers shall at the end of every third year, from the date of their incorporation, until three years next after the said bridge shall be completed, lay before the legisla the general assembly of this commonwealth, an abstract of their &c. to be laid before ture every 3 years. accounts, showing the whole of the capital expended in the prosecution of the work, and of the income and profits arising from the toll received during such period, 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, 1 be increased that the clear annual income and profits thereof may be ascer tained and known; and if at the end of three years, after the completion of the said bridge it shall appear from the average profits of the said three years, that the clear income and profits will not bear a dividend of six per cent. per annum on the whole capital stock of the said company so expended, then it shall be Tolls may lawful for the said president, managers and company to increase in case the the tolls herein allowed to be taken so much on each particular dividends do item, in proportion as will raise the dividend to six per cent. per not amount annum, on the whole capital stock of the said company, and at to 6 per the end of every ten years after the completion of the said bridge, Further acthe said president, managers and company shall render to the count to be general assembly of this commonwealth, a like abstract of their rendered. accounts for the three preceding years. SECT. XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, cent. That if the said company shall not proceed to carry on the said Limitation work within the space of three years, from the passing of this for beginning act, and shall not within the space of fifteen years, from the and comple passing thereof complete the said bridge, it shall and may be ting the bridge.. lawful for the legislature of this commonwealth to resume all and singular the rights and privileges hereby granted to the said company. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED-the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER LXXIX. An ACT to enable the administrators of William Irwin, late of the borough of Pittsburgh, deceased, to convey a certain lot of ground to the purchaser thereof. HEREAS it appears to the legislature, that William Irwin, late of theborough of Pittsburgh, did by parole contract sometime previous to his death, agree with his brother John Irwin, to exchange part of lot number three hundred and forty-nine, for parts of two lots numbered three hundred and forty-eight, and three hundred and forty-seven, all of the said lots in the borough of Pittsburgh, and bounded by Fourthstreet, Market-street and the Diamond; it further appears that the difference in value of the said lots thus exchanged, was five hundred dollars, which the said John Irwin was to pay: And whereas the said John Irwin is willing, and offers at any time to pay the aforesaid sum of five hundred dollars, and to make a conveyance in fee simple, according to the agreement aforesaid: deceased enabled to convey to a part of a lot of ground. Provided, The administrators of the said William Irwin were enabled lawfully to convey to him agreeable to the aforesaid contract: Therefore, SECTION I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Sarah The Ad- Irwin, administratrix, George Wallace, James Irwin, John ministrators Irwin and John Scull, administrators of the estate of Williof W. Irwin am Irwin, deceased, or the survivors of them, be, and they are hereby authorized to execute a deed of conveyance to the said John Irwin, his heirs or assigns, for a part of lot numJohn Irwin, bered three hundred and forty-nine, in the said borough as before described, which deed so executed shall be considered as good and available in law as if it had been executed by the said William Irwin in his lifetime: Provided always, That no title, No interest interest or estate, shall vest in the said John Irwin, in consequence of the deed aforesaid, until he or his legal representatives shall execute a deed to the aforesaid administrators, or some fit person or persons, for a part of lots numbered three hundred and forty-seven, and three hundred and forty-eight, herein before described, and pay or cause to be paid, the sum of five hundred dollars before mentioned, in trust, and for the use of the heirs of the said William Irwin, and the said trust shall cease and determine, and an absolute fee simple shall vest in the said heirs or minor children, as they shall respectively arrive at the age of twenty-one years. to vest in John Irwin until, &c. JOHN WEBER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. P. C. LANE, Speaker of the Senate. APPROVED the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. SIMON SNYDER. CHAPTER LXXX. An ACT for the relief of Michael Wann, an old soldier. of Dauphin, was a soldier in the Pennsylvania line, and served during the revolutionary war; that a certificate of the final settlement of pay due to the said Michael Wann issued in his name for the sum of three hundred and ten dollars; that the said certificate was delivered by the agent of the commonwealth to a certain Edward Stains, who had fraudulently obtained letters of administration on the estate of the said Michael Wann, and the money received thereupon by the said Stains; and as the delivery of the said certificate to such supposed administrator was illegal: therefore, |