Aire and Calder Navigation Act 1698

IV. Undertakers impowered to take Tolls on Goods carried up and down the said Rivers, as herein mentioned.

Goods between Weeland, Leeds, and Wakefield.; On Neglect or Refusal to pay such Tolls, Undertakers may sue or detain Goods.

And be [X1 it] alsoe hereby further enacted That for and in consideration of the great Charges and Expences which the said Undertakers their Heires or Assignes will be at not only in makeing the said Rivers navigable as aforesaid but alsoe in the repairing and keeping the said Rivers and other the matters and things aforesaid navigable and usefull for the said Navigation it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Undertakers their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes and no others from time to time and at all times hereafter to aske demand recover and take from all and every Person and Persons that shall send downe or receive up any Packs or Trusses of Cloth or other Merchandizes Wares or Commodities whatsoever that shall be carried or conveyed up or downe the said Rivers or either of them the Rates and Tolls hereafter mentioned and at such Place or Places adjoyning to the said Rivers or either of them as the said Undertakers their Heires or Assignes shall think fit videlicet For every Tun Weight of Cloth or other Goods Wares Commodities or Merchandizes that shall be carried or conveyed in any Boat Barge or Vessell up the said Rivers or either of them from Weeland aforesaid to the Townes of Leeds and Wakefeild or either of them or downe the said Rivers or either of them from either of the said Townes of Leeds and Wakefeild to Weeland aforesaid from the First Day of May in every Yeare to the First Day of October any Sum not exceeding Ten Shillings and from the First Day of October in every Yeare to the First Day of May any Sum not exceeding Sixteene Shillings and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Weight or for a lesse distance of Place to or from which any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall be carried or conveyed in any Boat Barge or Vessell upon part of the said Rivers only or either of them betweene Leeds or Wakefeild and Weeland aforesaid And in case of Refusall Neglect or Deniall of Payment on Demand of the severall Rates or Prices above mentioned the said Undertakers their Heires and Assignes or such other Persons or Persons whom they shall nominate and appoint respectively their respective Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes shall or may sue for the same by Action of Debt or upon the Case in any Court of Record or detaine or make Stay of any Goods or Vessells from which the said Rates or Prices ought to be paid untill they shall be satisfied and paid the same.

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X1 O. omits.