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For enforeing the Payment of Rates and Tolls.
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XXI. It shall be lawful for the Collectors appointed and authorized in this Behalf by the said Trustees of the said Navigations respectively to demand and take the Tolls and Rates payable by virtue of this Act, and in case of Refusal or Neglect, on Demand, to pay such Rates or Tolls to the respective Persons appointed to receive the same as aforesaid, the said Trustees may sue for and recover the same by an Action of Debt in any of Her Majesty’s Courts of Record, or by Civil Bill, or the Person to whom such Rates or Tolls ought to have been paid may and he is hereby empowered to seize the Goods, Articles, or other Things for or in respect whereof any such Rates or Tolls ought to be or ought to have been paid, or any Part thereof, and the Vessel laden therewith, and detain the same until such Payment shall be made, together with all reasonable Charges for such Seizure and Detention; and if such Goods, Articles, and Things shall not be redeemed within Twenty-one Days after the taking thereof, the same shall be appraised and sold as the Low directs in Cases of Distress for Rent, and such Rates, Tolls, and Charges satisfied thereout.
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