# Bristol Roads and Avon and Frome Navigation Act 1698, Section X: Such Fines to be reasonable, and may be levied by Distress.


Application thereof.
Provided alwaies neverthelesse That all Fines and Forfeitures to be imposed and laid upon Offenders by such Rules Orders and Constitutions by virtue of this Act be reasonable and no greater or more penall than the Nature of the Offence shall require or more grievous or greater to and upon Strangers or Forreigners trading to the said City than to the Citizens and Inhabitants thereof And alsoe that all Fines and Forfeitures imposed or to be imposed and laid by vertue of this Act shall upon Conviction of the Party soe offending upon the Oath or Oaths of One or more credible Witnesses before the Mayor and any One other Justice of the Peace for the said City be levied by Distresse and Sale of the Offenders Goods rendring to him the Overplus if any shall be necessary Charges for takeing such Distresse being first deducted and when levied shall from time to time be solely applied for the Preservation and Benefitt of the Navigation of the said Rivers or for the repairing and amending of the High waies within the Liberties of the said City as to the Justices of the Peace in their Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be held for the said City or the major Part of them it shall seeme most reasonable and convenient

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/23/section/X (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bristol-roads-and-avon-and-frome-navigation-act-1698/section-X
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