Application of the Cumberland road fund.alties, and forfeitures, accruing under this act, shall constitute a fund, to be denominated the Cumberland road fund, and shall be applied by the superintendent to be appointed as aforesaid, solely and exclusively to the preservation, repair, and improvement of said road, and the expenses incident thereto, and to no other purpose whatever.
Power of the Assembly to alter or amend.
Proviso.“Be it further enacted, That the General Assembly reserves to itself at any future session thereof, without the consent of Congress, to change, alter, or amend this act: Provided, That the same shall not be so changed, altered, or amended, as to reduce or increase the rates of toll hereby established, below or above a sum necessary to defray the expenses incident to the repair and preservation of said road, to the erection of gates and toll-houses thereon, and for the payment of the fees or salaries of the superintendent, the collector of tolls, and of such other agents as may be necessarily employed in the preservation and repair of the said road, according to the true intent and meaning of this act.
Directors to be set up on the road, &c.“Be it further enacted, That directors shall be set up, at proper convenient situations, to caution all conductors and drivers of carriages or wagons on the road, as aforesaid, that they shall always pass on the left of each other, under the penalty of five dollars for every offence; and there shall also be set up, at some conspicuous place at each gate, a board, on which shall be legibly printed the rates of toll as is provided for in this act;Delay of passengers, &c. and if any toll collector shall unreasonably delay or hinder any passenger or traveller at any of the gates, or shall demand or receive more toll than is by this act established, he shall, for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved, the sum of ten dollars.
Wilful injuries to road, &c.“Be it further enacted, That if any person shall purposely and maliciously deface, or otherwise injure any of the milestones, parapet walls, culverts, or bridges, or any masonry whatsoever, or any of the gates or toll-houses of, or belonging to the said Cumberland road, in this state, as the same is now constructed, or may hereafter be constructed, every person so offending, upon conviction thereof, or judgment, information, or presentment in the county or superior courtPenalty.
Obstructing side drains, &c. of Ohio county, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the jail of the county not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court; and if any person shall purposely fill, choke, or otherwise obstruct any of the side drains, valleys, gutters, or culverts of said road now made, or hereafter to be made, or shall connect any private road or cartway with said Cumberland road, or shall connect any private road or cartway with said Cumberland road, or if any surveyor of a county road shall connect the same with the said Cumberland road, without making, at the point of connection, a stone culvert or paved valley, or other good and sufficient fixture so as to secure a free passage for the water along such side drain where such private or county road or cartway connects with said Cumberland road, and so as to secure such Cumberland road from injury by reason of such county or private road, or way, being connected with said Cumberland road, every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof,Penalties. be, for every such offence, fined in a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars; and if any person shall stand his wagon,Standing wagons, &c. and team, or either of them, over night upon the pavement of said road now made, or which may hereafter be made, or shall at any other time stand a wagon and team, or either of them, upon the said pavement for the purpose of feeding, or if he shall, in any other manner, purposely and wilfully obstruct the travel upon said road,Locking wheels. or if he shall fast-lock or rough-lock either of the wheels of any wagon, coach, chaise, gig, sulky, carriage, or other two or four wheeled vehicle while travelling upon said road as now made, or as it may hereafter be made, (excepting, however, such parts of said road as may be, at the time of said locking, covered with ice,) every person so offending shall,Penalty. upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than two, nor more than twenty dollars.
