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Power of Re-entry in case of Nonperformance of the Conditions of such Leases.
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XXIII. In case any of the Rates or Tolls by this Act authorized to be taken shall be demised or let, and the Lessee thereof shall refuse or neglect to perform the Terms and Conditions on which the same shall be so demised or let, or any of them, or in case all or any Part of any Rent agreed to be paid by any such Lessee shall be in arrear or unpaid for the Space of Twenty-one Days next after any of the Days on which the same ought to be paid pursuant to the Lease of such Rates or Tolls, or in case any such Lease shall in any other Manner become void or voidable or determine, or in case any Collector of the said Rates or Tolls appointed by the said Trustees as aforesaid shall be discharged from his Office, or shall die, abscond, or absent himself, and any such Collector who shall be so discharged, or the Wife, Widow, or any of the Children or Family, or any Representative of any such Collector, or any other Person being in possession thereof, shall refuse to deliver up or shall not deliver up Possession of any Toll House, Office, or other Building, with the Appurtenances thereto respectively belonging, to be used for the Purposes of this Act, within the Space of Seven Days next after a Demand thereof in Writing on behalf of the said Trustees shall be given to him, or affixed to such Toll House, Office, or Building, then and in any of the said Cases it shall be lawful for any Two or more Justices of the Peace acting within their Jurisdiction, upon any Application made by the said Trustees, by Warrants under the Hands and Seals of the said Justices, to order any Constable or other Peace Officer, with such Assistance as shall be necessary, to enter upon and take possession of every or any such Toll House, Office, or other Building, with the Appurtenances, and to remove and put such Lessee, Collector, or other Person as shall be found therein, together with his Goods, from and out of the same and the Possession thereof, and from the Collection of such Rates or Tolls, and to put the said Trustees, their Agent, or their new Lessee or Collector, into the Possession thereof; and it shall be lawful for the said Justices to declare such Lease to be void and determined, and the same shall be void and determined accordingly (save as to any Rights and Liabilities in respect of any Rent already accrued and any Breach of any Terms or Conditions already committed).
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