Sedgmoor Drainage Act 1698

V. Seven Commissioners may make Rules for the Use and Enjoyment of the said Moor.

and may set Penalties upon Offenders; Such Rules, &c. to be under Hand and Seal, and recorded in General Sessions; The same, and true Copies thereof, to be Evidence; Limitation of Appeal to Justices of Assize; whose Orders are to be recorded at Sessions.

And for the better and more orderly useing of the said Moor and the Commons thereof and commoning thereupon Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners for the time being or any Seaven or more of them shall from time to time have full Power and Authority to make Rules Orders and Constitutions for the Good and orderly Usage and Enjoyment of the said Moor and the Commons thereof and commoning thereupon and to set lay and execute such reasonable Pains and Penalties upon the Breakers of the same to be levied and recovered by such reasonable Waies and Meanes as to them in their discretion shall seeme meet and reasonable which said Orders and Constitutions being put in Writing under the Hands and Seales of the said Commissioners or any Seaven or more of them shall be binding to and be observed and performed by all Parties concerned in the said Orders and Constitutions to be kept amongst the Records of the Generall Sessions of the Peace for the said County of Somerset by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said County in manner as aforesaid all which and true Copies thereof shall be taken adjudged and deemed good and sufficient Evidence and Proof in any Court of Record whatsoever neverthelesse the Justice or Justices of Assize for the said County of Somerset for the time being upon Complaint to him or them respectively made by any Person or Persons agrieved by any such Orders Constitutions Pains or Penalties or any of them at the Assizes next after he she or they shall be agrieved thereby shall and may respectively abridge moderate alter or reforme the same as such Justice or Justices of Assize shall see cause such Orders to be under his or their respective Hands and Seales and to be kept amongst the Records of the Sessions as aforesaid