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(2) If any toll collector or receiver, or other person employed to receive the tolls or rates at a gate or bar erected upon a highway, bridge, or post road, demands toll for any mail or any person, horse, or carriage, going for or employed to go for any mail bag, or does not permit any such mail, person, horse, or carriage, to pass without delay, or wilfully delays or obstructs any such mail, person, horse, or carriage at or in passing a gate or bar, he shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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(3) If any ferryman, or other person employed to receive the tolls at a ferry, demands any toll for any mail, or does not, within fifteen minutes after demand made, convey the mail (if it be possible or safe to do so) across the ferry to the usual landing-place, he shall for each offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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