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ant work entrusted by the stockholders to their direction, have established toll gates at the following places on said road, and have appointed a toll gatherer at each gate, and that the rates of toll to be collected at the several gates are by resolution of the Board and agreeable to Act of Assembly fixed and established as below. The total distance from Lancaster to Philadelphia is 62 miles.

Gate No. 1—02½ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 03 miles
Gate No. 2—05½ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 05 miles
Gate No. 3—10½ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 07 miles
Gate No. 4—20½ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 10 miles
Gate No. 5—29½ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 10 miles
Gate No. 6—40½ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 10 miles
Gate No. 7—49½ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 10 miles
Gate No. 8—58⅛ miles W from Schuylkill, collect 05 miles
Gate No. 9—Witmer's Bridge, collect 61 miles."

There is also in the same journal, bearing date January 22, 1796, the following notice:

"Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, by authority of aforesaid, that no wagon or other carriage with wheels the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches, shall be driven along said road between the first day of December and the first day of May following in any year or years, with