Minehead Harbour Act 1700

III. Trustees appointed for ordering the Works in and about the Harbour, and the Collection and Disposition of the said Duties.

Proviso for Election of new Trustees in the room of Trustees dying, &c.

And for the better collecting and disposing the said severall Sums of Money and Duties hereby made payable Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Sir John Trevellyan Baronet Sir Francis Warre Baront. Sir Jacob Bancks Knight Nathaniel Palmer Baldwyn Malett Alexander Lutterell Edmond Bowyer Thomas Wolstenhome and Robert Siderfin Esquires William Blackford Councell at Law and Thomas Ledgenham Marchant shall be and are hereby nominated and appointed Trustees for the ordering and directing the building and making the said New Head and other Works in and about the said Harbour and the maintaining and repairing the same from Time to Time during the said Term and for the ordering and directing the Collection Receipt and Disposition of the said Summes of Money and Duties which from Time to Time during the said Term by vertue hereof shall be due and made payable And if any of the said Trustees shall happen to dye or refuse to act during the said Term then and in such Case it shall and may be lawfull to and for the surviving Trustees to elect nominate and appoint other Trustee or Trustees in the Place [X1 or] Places of such Trustee or Trustees so dying or refusing as aforesaid and such Trustee and Trustees so from time to time elected and appointed shall have the same Power and Authority as if they had been nominated and appointed by this Act.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]