Gloucestershire Roads Act 1697

XIV. If Highway not sufficiently repaired the same to be certified by Justices. Penalty £500 on Persons giving such Security.

And to the end the designe of this Act may no ways be evaded Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Persons having so given Security in case the said Highway shall not be sufficiently repaired or certified, so to be by the Justices of the Peace for the County of Hereford or any Ten of them under their Hands and Seales by the time for which Security was given it should be so repaired & amended over and above the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms they shall be bound for shall forfeit the Su[m]m of Five hundred Pounds One Moiety thereof to be applied to the repairing and amending the said Highway the other Moiety thereof to such Person or Persons who shall sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts att Westminster wherein no Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor more than one Imparlance.