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Penalty for paying or receiving more than the regulated price for the use of a lighter, &c.
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LI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any owner or owners, or master of any lighter, boat, or vessel, shall receive more, or any person shall pay more for the use and employment of such lighter, boat, or vessel, than the rate of hire and payment so settled at the said sessions, or any adjournment thereof, every person so offending shall, for every such offence, being thereof convicted on a summary hearing before the said mayor, by the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, (which oath or oaths the said mayor is hereby authorized to administer), or by the confession of the party or parties, forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds, nor less than forty shillings, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods and chattels, by warrant under the hand and seal of the said mayor.
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