Every four-wheeled pleasure <;an'iage and liorses 3"^/^ ct8.

Every two wlieeled pleasure carriage and horses 19 "

Every pleasure sleigh and horses 19 "

Every common wagon and horses ^'^3^ *'

Every common sled and horses 12J/^ "

Ox cart and oxen 12}-^ "

Every one-horse cart and horse 9 "

Ej'ery man and horse 9 "

Every ox, cow^r steer 1 *'

ETery dozen hogs, sheep or calves, and so in proportion for a

greater or less number G *'

For every foot passenger :i "

State and United States troops, with their artillery, carriages and stores were to pass free of toll.^

Under the foregoing acts and grants Coles and his associates built the bridge, and although it was insufficient for land travel and its draw so narrow as to seriously impede the navigation of the river, as late as 1855 his successors were endeavoring to have the charter renewed. In 1857 the Legislature passed an act reciting the fact that on April 1, 1858, it was to become a free bridge, to be maintained as such by the counties of New York and Westchester The mayor and street commissioners of New York City and the county judge and chairman of the Westchester Board of Supervisors were empowered to build a new bridge in their discretion and levy a tax for the cost. Judge William H. Robertson and Chairman Alsop H. Lockwood were the Westchester members of this commission, which, in June, 1860, appointed William H. McAlpine engineer of the work. He made plans for an iron draw-bridge on stone piers, at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars, and it was eventually built, although not until some changes had been made in the plan to better accommodate navigation. On July 14, 1886, the New York authorities awarded a contract to a Wilmington, Del., company, for the construction of a