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toll shall be no longer collected thereon; and said company shall annually make returns to said circuit court of the amount of tolls collected, and of their necessary expenses, so as to enable said circuit court to determine when said toll shall cease.

Penalty for evading the payment of tolls.Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, riding in, or driving any carriage of any kind, or leading, riding or driving any horses, sheep, hogs, or any kind of cattle whatever, on said road, shall pass through any private gate, bars or fence, or over any private way or passage, or pass through any toll-gate under any pretended privilege or exemption, to which he or she, or they, may not be entitled, or do any act or thing with intent to lessen or evade the tolls for passing through the gates established under this act, such person or persons, for every such offence, shall forfeit to the said president and directors, not less than three, nor more than ten dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, with costs, in the same manner that small debts are recoverable:Proviso. Provided, that it shall not be lawful for the company to ask, demand or receive from or for persons living on or adjacent to the said road, who may have occasion to pass by said road upon the ordinary business relating to their farms, so far as the limits of the same may extend on the road, who shall not have any other convenient road or way by which they may pass from one part to another part thereof, any toll for passing on or by the said turnpike.

Approved, March 3, 1809.

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March 3, 1809.

Chap. XXXIII.An Act authorizing an augmentation of the Marine Corps.[1]

Act of July 11, 1798, ch. 72.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 37.
Augmentation of the marine corps authorized.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized to cause the marine corps in the service of the United States, to be augmented, by the appointment and enlistment of not exceeding one major, two captains, two first lieutenants, one hundred and eighty-five corporals, and five hundred and ninety-four privates, who shall be respectively allowed the same pay, bounty, clothing and rations, and shall be employed under the same rules and regulations to which the said marine corps are, or shall, be entitled and subject.

Term of establishments.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, all enlistments in the said corps, shall be for the term of five years, unless sooner discharged, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 3, 1809.

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March 3, 1809.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XXXIV.An Act supplemental to the act intituled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.”[2]

Further appropriation.
Act of April 18, 1796, ch. 13.
Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 48.
Act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum, not exceeding forty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for the purpose of carrying on trade and intercourse with the Indian nations, in the manner prescribed by the act, intituled “An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes,” be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury of the United States, not otherwise appropriated.

Appropriation for an additional clerk in the superintendent’s office.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eight hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any monies in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for an additional clerk in the office of the superintendent of Indian trade.


  1. See notes of the acts passed relating to the Marine Corps, vol. i. 594.
  2. See notes to the act of April 18, 1796, chap. 13.