Minehead Harbour Act 1700

XIV. Powers of Stat. 9 & 10 W.III.c.18. vested in Quarter Sessions for the County of Gloucester.

Security given by Undertakers in the said Act discharged, who, together with Collectors, are to account at next Quarter Sessions; and pay Monies therein appearing due; In Default, Distress.

And for the better Execution of an Act of Parliament made in the Ninth and Tenth Years of His present Majesties Reign intituled An Act for repairing the Highways leading from the Town of Birdlipp and Top of Crickly-hills to the City of Gloucester Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Powers and Authorities given by the said Act to the Undertaker or Undertakers for the repairing the said Highways be and are hereby vested in the Justices of the Peace at the Generall Courts of Quarter Sessions holden for the County of Gloucester or the major Part of the Justices of Peace there present who are from time to time to give such Order and Directions touching the Repairs of the said Highways and for recieving and paying the Six pences in the Pound and the Duties arising by the Turnpike in the said Act mentioned as they shall think fit and convenient and the Security given by the said Undertaker or Undertakers is hereby released and discharged and the said Undertakers and Collectors of the Toll shall at the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said County of Gloucester give and passe a [X1 true and just] Account upon Oath of all the Moneys by them respectively recieved and paid upon or by vertue of the said Act of Parliament and if any Sums of Money shall be found by the said Justices at the said Quarter Sessions to be in the Hands of the Undertaker or Undertakers and Collectors that then the Sume or Sumes shall be paid by such of the Undertakers and Collectors in whose Hands the same shall remain as the said Justices of the Peace or the major Part of them shall direct and appoint in and toward the Reparations of the said Highways And for default of Payment shall levy the same by way of Distress upon the Goods and Chattells of the Person or Persons that shall neglect to pay the same

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