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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bristol-roads-and-avon-and-frome-navigation-act-1698/section-IX",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/11/23",
  "legislation_title": "Bristol Roads and Avon and Frome Navigation Act 1698",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bristol-roads-and-avon-and-frome-navigation-act-1698",
  "path": "section/IX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Mayor and Justices in Quarter Sessions may make Rules and appoint Officers for Government of the said River and of Pilots, Masters of Ships, &c. and may impose Fines.\nAnd whereas all things necessary for the Conservation of the said Rivers and the Navigation thereof and the well ruleing governing and ordering of Pilotts Masters of Shipps Barkes and other Vessells and the anchoring mooring and removing of such Shipps and Vessells cannot be foreseene It is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Mayor and Justices of the said City may at the Generall Quarter Sessions to be held for the said City from time to time as Occasion shall require make such good Rules Orders and Constitutions and nominate and appoint such Officer or Officers as shall be necessary for the Preservation of the said Rivers and Regulation and Government of all Pilotts Masters of Shipps and other Vessells navigating to and from the said City and of all Shipps Barks and other Vessells comeing into lying or abideing within the said Rivers Avon and Froome or either of them and the Creekes and Harbours within the same and for the anchoring mooring and removeing of such Shipps and Vessells and in the said Court to impose such reasonable Fines and Forfeitures upon voluntary and obstinate Infringers and Violaters of such Orders and Constitutions as shall be consistent with Reason Justice and the Laws of this Kingdom and alsoe to appoint and sett downe the Methods how such Fines and Forfeitures shall be levied and recovered",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll; omitted in King's Printer's Copy."
    },
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      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    },
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      "type": "X",
      "label": "X3",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/23/section/IX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:15.180373+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}