Road Repair (Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire) Act 1663

VII. Recital that Monies so to be collected will not raise a sufficient Stock.

Power to Surveyors, with Consent of Justices, to mort-gage the Tolls.; If Money cannot be so borrowed, Quarter Sessions may make a Rate.; Rates to be paid to Surveyors.; Persons refusing to pay Rates; Surveyors may distrain.

And forasmuch as the moneys soe to bee collected by such receipt of the said Toll, will not at present, raise such a Stocke or Suu[m]me of Money, as may bee sufficient for the speedy repairing of the Premisses, in the said severall Countyes of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington, It is hereby further enacted, and the said Surveyors are hereby enabled, by and with the like consent of the said Justices, for their severall and respective Countyes, without further license severally to engage, the profitts arising of the said Toll, in their severall Countyes, for such suu[m]me or suu[m]mes of money, by them to bee borrowed for that purpose, and by Indenture, under the hands and seales of the said respective Surveyors, for the time being to transferr the said profitts of the said Toll, and to grant and convey the same for any time or tearme, not exceeding nine yeares, unto any person or persons, that shall or will upon that Security, advance any present suu[m]me or suu[m]mes of money, for and towards the present repairing and amending of the said Highway, in the respective places and Countyes aforesaid, for the repayment of such principall suu[m]me or suu[m]mes of money soe lent with Interest for the same, or in case such suu[m]me or suu[m]mes of money cannot bee borrowed upon the Security aforesaid, for the repaire of the said Wayes, that then it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Justices, in their said severall and respective Countyes, at their severall Quarter Sessions, when they shall see cause, to make a Rate, not to extend to any other County but their owne, nor to repaire any other then the places aforesaid, in that particular County, where such rate is made, whereby they shall have power for their severall Countyes, to raise upon the Parishes, that lye in or neere the said Roade (and soe will have a benefitt therefrom) such suu[m]me or suu[m]mes of money, as they shall see fitt and convenient for the speedy effecting of the said Repaires before mentioned which said suu[m]me and suu[m]mes, soe to bee rated as aforesaid, shall bee paid to the Surveyors, for the respective County, where such Rate is made, or to their Receivor or Collector, to bee imployed for the repairing of the said Wayes and Places aforementioned and not otherwise, And in case any person, shall refuse to pay such rate soe to bee made, that it shall and may bee lawfull for the said Surveyors, or their said Receivors, and Collectors, to distreyne for such suu[m]me or suu[m]mes of money, and the distresse to sell, rendring the overplus to the Owners