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sonable time, at a convenient place, to enable the other to 

 pass. 



Sec. 3. When a person with a team is stationary, or trav- 

 eling slowly on a way at a place unsafe or inconvenient for 

 passing him with a team, he is, if requested, to drive to the 

 right or left, or to stop a reasonable time at a convenient 

 place, to allow the other to pass. 



Sec. 4. No person is to leave his team stationary on a way 

 so as to obstruct the free passage of other teams ; or is to 

 allow his team to be on a way without a driver. 



Sec. 5. Three or more bells are to be fastened to one of 

 the foremost horses drawing teams on snow without wheels. 



Sec. 6. Any person injured by a violation of any provision 

 of the previous sections, may recover damages in an action 

 on the case, commenced within one year. Any person found 

 guilty of such a violation forfeits not less than one, nor more 

 than twenty dolUxrs, to be recovered on complaint made to a 

 trial justice within sixty days. 



Sec. 7. No team is permitted to travel faster than a walk 

 on a bridge erected wholly or partly by the state, nor on any 

 bridge covered with plank and fifty feet long composing part 

 of a way, nor on any bridge owned by a corporation, if a 

 board witli the words "three dollars fine for riding or driving 

 on this bridge faster than a walk," legibly painted in black 

 letters on a white ground, is kept exposed in some conspicu- 

 ous place at each end thereof. 



Sec. 8. For a willful violation of the provisions of the 

 preceding section, a person forfeits three dollars to be recov- 

 ered on complaint to the use of the owners of the bridge, 

 or the town required to keep it in repair, with the costs of 

 prosecution ; but no person passing after sunset and before 

 sunrise is liable to such forfeiture without proof that he pre- 

 viously had knowledge of such prohibition. 



Sec. 9. The driver of a team having passengers therein 

 conveyed for hire, who leaves it without any person in charge 

 of it and without fastening it securely, may be punished by 



