“Sec. 3. That if any person after crossing said bridge shall refuse to pay toll, or shall drive rapidly, or ride at a trot, gallop or run, or discharge firearms at the bridge, the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before a justice of the peace in Catawba or Iredell county shall forfeit and pay to said company for the use of the educational fund a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, in the discretion of the court.”
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Laws and Resolutions of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly at Its Session of 1883, Begun and Held in the City of Raleigh, on Wednesday, the Third Day of January, A. D. 1883: To Which Are Prefixed a Register of State Officers, Members of the General Assembly, Judiciary, a List of Commissioners of Affidavits, and State Constitution (Raleigh, NC: Ashe & Gatling, 1883), 819-820. Chapter 3—An Act to Incorporate the Statesville and Catwaba Toll Bridge Company, §3. Ratified March 7, 1883.