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No boats to ply for hire within a mile of the ferry, or the bridge, penalty 10l. over all tolls, unless licensed by commissioners;
justice may order boats,&c. to be sold, and if not sufficient, persons may be committed to goal.
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XIX. And be it enacted, That from and after the time that the said commissioners or their successors shall purchase the said ferry, no boat or boats except those belonging to the said commissioners or their successors, or to such person or persons as they shall authorize or appoint, shall ply for hire within the distance of one mile above, or of one mile below the said ferry or the said bridge, after the same shall be built; and that all and every person or persons carrying or conveying for hire over, or across the said river, within the said limits, any carriage, cattle, person, or other matter subject to toll, without being thereto licensed, or appointed by the said commissioners or their successors, or a quorum of them, shall for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the said commissioners and their successors, the sum of ten pounds, over and above the tolls or duty payable for the passage of such carriages, cattle, persons, or other matters; and the said commissioners and their successors, or a quorum of them, or such person or persons as they shall authorize and appoint in that behalf, shall and may seize and detain all and every boat and boats in which such carriages, cattle, person, or matters shall be conveyed, together with all the oars, masts, sails and furniture to such boat or boats belonging, and the person or persons rowing or working such boat or boats, and the carriages, cattle, persons, and other matters so conveyed across the said river, contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof, and may bring such person and persons before one or more justice or justices of the peace of the county, in which he, the, or they shall be so seized, who is and are hereby authorized and required upon due proof of such offence, by warrant under his or their hand or hands and seal or seals, to order and direct such boat and boats, with the furniture to her and them belonging, and such carriage, cattle, or other matters, to be forthwith sold for payment of the said forfeiture or penalty, and the said toll or duty; and in case the produce of such sale shall not be sufficient to satisfy the same, then such justice or justices shall and may commit such person or persons so brought before him or them, to the common gaol of the county, until the residue of the said penalty or forfeiture, and the said toll or duty be paid, or for such time not exceeding one month, as to such justice or justices shall seem meet.
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