River Trent Navigation Act 1698

XIV. Commissioners, with such Consent as herein mentioned, may raise £600 on the Inhabitants of Burton,;

over and above the £600 raised by the Duties; and may set Fine on Officers not obeying their Orders; and may seize Goods of Inhabitants refusing to pay; Fines to be paid to the Undertaker.

And forasmuch as the Sum of Six hundred Pounds is as much or more than can be raised by any Duties that will arise by the said Navigation which will not be sufficient to perfect the same Wherefore be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Commissioners or their Successors or any Five of them with the Consent of the Lord of the said Mannor of Burton for the time being and of the Feoffees Bayliff Towne-Masters Constables Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of Burton upon Trent in the County of Stafford for the time being or with the Consent of the major part of them to raise and levy and they are hereby enabled to raise and levy upon the Inhabitants of the Parish of Burton upon Trent aforesaid or by or out of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the same Parish by such Waies Methods and Meanes relating to the same Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as to the said Commissioners or their Successors or any Five of them shall seeme meet and convenient such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be requisite and necessary over and above the said Sum of Six hundred Pounds for the perfecting of the said Navigation soe as such Sum or Sums to be raised and levyed above the said Six hundred Pounds do not exceed in the whole the Sum of Six hundred Pounds above the said Six hundred Pounds and to make such Rules Orders and Decrees for the raising and levying such Sum or Sums and to make and give such Precepts Orders and Directions to the Constables Headboroughs Churchwardens Overseers of the Poor of the Borough Parish Liberties or Precincts of Burton upon Trent aforesaid for the time being for the assessing imposing taxing or collecting such Sum and Sums of Money or for their Assistance in the raising thereof by or out of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the Parish of Burton upon Trent aforesaid and to set and impose such Fine or Fines upon such Officer or Officers that shall refuse to obey such Precepts Orders or Directions as to the said Commissioners or their Successors or any Five of them shall seeme fitting soe as no Fine for any one such Offence or Neglect exceed the Sum of Tenn Pounds the same Fines to be levyed by the Seizure and Sale of a reasonable Part of the Offenders Goods rendring the Overplus (if any) ariseing by such Sale to such Offender and such Sum and Sums of Money to be assessed upon any of the Inhabitants within the said Parish of Burton upon Trent to be levied upon such of the said Inhabitants as shall refuse to pay what shall be so imposed or assessed upon them by Seizure or Sale of a reasonable Part of the Goods of the Person or Persons so refusing rendring to him her or them the Overplus (if any) ariseing by such Sale And all such Sums to be raised or levied as aforesaid to be paid to the Undertaker and Undertakers of the said Navigation for the perfecting thereof And the said Seizures or Sales to be from time to time by virtue of some Warrant or Precept under the Hands and Seales of Five or more of the said Commissioners or their Successors