Road Repair (Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire) Act 1663

V. Surveyors, with the Approbation of Justices, to appoint Toll Gatherers.

Rates appointed. In collecting of Toll Places appointed.; Persons refusing to pay Toll,; Horse, &c. may be-detained; and Expence thereof made good; Receivers of Toll to account.; Monies to be laid out in Repairs of Roads, &c.

And for the defraying of the charge of such Reparations, to bee done in the places aforesaid Bee it further enacted, That from and after the choice of the Surveyors aforesaid, it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Surveyors for the time being, with such consent and approbation as is aforesaid of the said Justices of the severall Countyes, within their owne Countyes, and not elsewhere, to choose and appoint one or more fitt person or persons, to receive or take such suu[m]me or suu[m]mes of money in the name of Toll or Custome, to bee paid for all such Horses, Carts, Coaches, Waggons, Droves, and Gangs of Cattell, as in time to come shall passe, bee ledd, or droven, in or through the said waye or places aforesaid, as are hereafter by this Act limited and appointed (that is to say),

For every Horse one penny, for every Coach six pence, for every Waggon one shilling, for every Cart eight pence, for every score of Sheepe or Lambes one [X1 halfe] penny, and so proportionably for greater numbers,

For every score of Oxen or Neat Cattell five pence, and so for every greater or lesser number proportionably,

For every score of Hoggs two pence, and so for every greater or lesser number proportionably, not being under five,

And that from and after the passing this Act all and every person or persons, who shall travell with Horse, Coach, Cart, or Waggon, or shall leade or drive any Oxen, Sheepe, Horses, or other Cattell afore, mentioned, in and through the Highway and places aforesaid, shall and are hereby required to pay unto the respective Collectors and Receivers of Toll, in the severall Countyes aforesaid, in that behalfe to bee appointed, after the rates aforesaid, The places for collecting of the said Toll to bee, for the County of Hertford at Wades-Mill, and for the County of Cambridge at Caxton, within the said County of Cambridge, and for the County of Huntington, at Stilton in the said County of Huntington, and at no other place or places within the said Countyes And in case any person or persons, upon demaund made of Toll aforesaid, by the Collectctor or Receiver in that behalfe, to be appointed shall neglectct or refuse to pay the same, that then it shall and may bee lawfull, to and for the said Collector or Receiver appointed for [X1 the] Receipt of the said Toll, upon such refusall to distreyne and deteyne such Horse, Cart, Coach Waggon Oxen or other Cattell aforementioned, or any of them, untill the said Toll shalbee satisfied and paid, according to the teno^r of this present Actct, together with such da[m]mages, as the party soe distreyning, shall susteyne, by keeping of such Distresse, of all which money soe to bee received the said Collector or Receivor of Toll soe to bee appointed in the severall Countyes, shall from time to time render true Accounts, and shall pay the money soe by them received, unto the said Surveyors of their severall and respective Countyes, or to any three or more of them, or unto such Treasurers as they shall appoint, when and as often, as they shalbee thereunto required, by the said Surveyors or any three or more of them, by them to bee laid out and expended, for and towards the necessary Repaires and amending of the severall places beforementioned and not elsewhere, within their said severall and respective Countyes

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