United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 80
Chap. LXXX.—An Act to amend an act, entitled “An act to incorporate a company for making a certain turnpike road in the county of Alexandria,” passed thirteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Act of July 13, 1813, ch. 12.
Preamble.Whereas, by an act, entitled “An act incorporating a company to establish a turnpike road, from Wiley’s Tavern, in the county of Fairfax, to a point of intersection on the Little River turnpike road, or on the line of the District of Columbia,” passed by the general assembly of the state of Virginia, it is provided, that the company thereby incorporated may, at their discretion, locate their said road so as to intersect the Little River turnpike road, or the line of the District of Columbia; in the latter case of intersecting the line of the District of Columbia, the said road may terminate at some distance from the town of Alexandria—
Commissioners to be appointed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioners, to be appointed under the act of Congress to which this is an amendment, for locating and marking the road therein mentioned, shall have power to lay out the same from any point of intersection on the line of the District of Columbia, if the said Virginia Company shall so locate their road, to such point in the line of the corporation of Alexandria, as they, in their judgment, may think fit; and the said company, incorporated by the act to which this is an amendment, at their annual meeting in March, shall elect, from among the stockholders, a President and four directors, to manage the concerns of the company for one year, and until others are appointed in their place.
Rates of toll.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the rates of toll heretofore fixed by the said act, shall be considered as the rates for two miles, and that the company shall have power to demand and receive, in the same proportion, for a greater or less distance:Proviso. Provided, The tolls to be collected thereon shall not exceed the rate of tolls on the Little River turnpike road, for the like distance; and that Hugh Smith, Robert J. Taylor, Richard M. Scott, John C. Vowell, Thomas Vowell, Thomas Sandford, William Fowle, Humphrey Peake, and Francis Peyton, be added to the commissioners named in the said act, for taking subscriptions to the said stock.
If the road become free under said act, the levy court of Alexandria shall keep it in repair.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if, at any time hereafter, the said road shall become free under the provisions of the said act, then, and in that case, the levy court of the county of Alexandria shall thereafter keep the said road in repair, at the expense of the said county.
Approved, May 20, 1826.