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Bridges Act 1670
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XI.Assessment, when to be made by Quarter Sessions for repairing the Highways.
To be levied by Distress.
And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That where the Justices of the Peace of any County, City or other place, or the major part of them at their generall Quarter Sessions [X1shall be fully satisfyed] that the common Highwayes, Causeys or Bridges within any Parish, Towneshipp or Hamblet within their respective Jurisdiction may not, or will not be sufficiently amended, repaired and supported by meanes of the Lawes now in force without the helpe of this present Act, in all such cases one or more Assesment or Assesments upon all and every the Inhabitants Owners and Occupyers of [X2Houses, Lands] Tenements and Hereditaments, or any personall Estate usually rateable to the poore within any such Parish, Township or Hamlet shall be made, leavyed, collected and allowed by such person and persons and in such manner as the said Justices by their Order at such Sessions shall direct and appoint in that behalfe, And the Money thereby raised shall be employed and accounted for according to the order and directions of the said Justices for and towards the amending, repaireing and supporting such Highwayes Causeys and Bridges from time to time as neede shall require. And the said [X1Assessment or] Assessments shall be leavyed by Distresse and Sale of the Goods of every person soe assessed (not paying the same within ten dayes after demand) rendering the Overplus of the value of the Goods soe destrained to the Owner or Owners thereof (the necessary charges of makeing and selling such Distresse being first deducted.
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