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Highways Act 1695
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V.
Pulling up Post Blocks, &c. placed to secure Horse or Foot Causeys; Penalty 20s.
And whereas it hath been found necessary to secure Horse-Causeys or Causeys for Horses and Foot Causeys to travel upon in Publick Highways by Posts Blocks or great Stones fixed in the Ground or by Banks of Earth- cast upp or otherwise from being broken upp and spoiled with Waggons Wayns or Carts And forasmuch as several evil-disposed Persons doe frequently pull upp cutt downe and remove the said Posts Blocks and great Stones so fixed as aforesaid and alsoe digg and cast downe the said Banks which are the Securities and Defences of the said Causeys whereby the Causeys are often ruined and destroyed: For Remedy whereof be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Foure and twentieth day of June every Person who shall pull upp cutt downe or remove any Post Block Great Stone Banke of Earth or other Security which was sett upp placed and made for securing the said Horse and Foot-Causeys from Waggons Wayns and Carts shall (upon Complaint thereof made to any Justice of the Peace of the Place or Division where such Offence shall bee proved to bee done by the Oath of any one credible Witnesse which Oath such Justice is hereby impowered to administer or upon view of the Justice himselfe) forfeit for every of the said Offences the su[m]m of Twenty shillings One Moiety thereof to the Surveyors of the High-ways of the Parish Towne or Division where any of the said Offences shall bee co[m]mitted to bee employed in the Repaires of the said High-ways and the other Moiety [X1thereof] to him that shall discover the same to bee levied in manner as aforesaid.
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