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Owners of ferries may erect bridges and take tolls, which shall be recoverable under Irish Act, 30 Geo. 3. c. 31.
Presentment for purchase of the property in such bridges, &c. in order to open them toll-free.
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120. It shall be lawful for any person or persons who now have or hereafter shall have any ferry over a river (except in cities and towns corporate), to erect and support a bridge at his or their own expense over such river in the place of such ferry, and to take and receive for passing such bridge such toll, and no more, as they are entitled to receive for passing such ferry, so as that such bridge shall not obstruct the navigation of such river; and such tolls shall be recoverable in the like manner, and under such penalties for refusing or evading to pay the same by any justice of the peace, as is prescribed by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the thirtieth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An Act for the building a bridge over the river Loughfoyle in the city of Londonderry, and the suburbs thereof”; and that it shall be lawful for any grand jury, upon an application made and approved of in manner by this Act directed, to make presentment for the purchase of the properties in any such bridges or ferries, in order to open the same, free of tolls, for the benefit of the public.
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