Gloucestershire Roads Act 1697

III. Quarter Sessions to appoint Collectors of Tolls.

Rates of Toll; Persons required to pay such Tolls; Places appointed for collecting Tolls; Collector to give weekly Account to a Justice of Peace, upon Oath, to be returned to Quarter Sessions; Persons refusing to pay Toll; Collector may distrain, and detain Horse, &c. until Toll paid; together with Damages; Money received paid to Surveyor for mending Road.

And for defraying of the Charge in and about the Reparations to be done in the Places aforesaid Be it further enacted That the said Justices of the Quarter Sessions aforesaid shall and [X1 may ] choose and appoint One or more fitt Person or Persons to be Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors of such Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money in the Name of Toll or Custome to be paid for all such Horses Carts Coaches Waggons Droves and Gangs of Cattell as in Time to come shall passe be led or driven in or through the said Way as are hereafter in this Act limitted (that is to say) For every Horse One Penny For every Stage-Coach or Hackney-Coach One Shilling For every other Coach Calash or Chariott One Shilling For every Waggon Six Pence For every Cart Six Pence For every Score of Hogs or Pigs Three Pence and so for every greater or lesser Number proportionably not being under Five For every Score of Oxen or Neat Cattell Eight Pence and so for every greater or lesser Number proportionably And that from and after the passing of this Act all and every Person and Persons who shall travel with Horse Coach Cart or Waggon or shall lead or drive any Oxen or other Cattell before mentioned in and through the High-way aforesaid shall and are hereby required to pay unto the said Collector or Collectors Receiver or Receivers of Toll in that behalfe from time to time to be appointed as aforesaid after the Rates aforesaid the Place for collecting the said Toll to be in some convenient Part or Place upon the said Highway betweene the Town of Birdlipp and City of Gloucester aforesaid by setting upp a Turnpike or Gate Turnpikes or Gates or otherwise as the Justices of the Peace for the said County or any Five of them shall appoint And further also That every Receiver or Collector appointed by the said Justices shall if required give in a Weekly Account upon Oath unto one or more Justices of the Peace who are hereby impowered to administer the same which said Account shall be duely returned to the Justices att the Quarter Sessions who shall examine the same and make such Order therein as to them shall seem meet according to the true meaning of this Act And in case any Person or Persons upon Demand made of Toll aforesaid by the Collector or Receiver in that behalfe appointed shall refuse or neglect to pay the same that then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Collector or Receiver to distraine & detaine such Horse Cart Coach Calash Chariot Waggon Oxen Hogs and other Cattle before mentioned until the said Toll [X1 shall], be satisfied and paid according to the Tenor of this present Act together with such Damages as the Party or Parties so distraining shall sustaine in and about the making of the said Distresse or by the keeping thereof, which said Money so to be received shall be paid to the respective Surveyor or Surveyors for and towards the mending of the said ruinous Places in the said High-ways according to the true meaning hereof & not elsewhere.

Editorial Information

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