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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bristol-roads-and-avon-and-frome-navigation-act-1698/section-XI",
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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/XI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XI",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Surveyors under Stat. 3W.&M. c. 12. to be continued; Their Duty. Refusing to take Office or neglecting the Performance of it; Penalty £5.\nAnd to the Intent and Purpose That the Streets Lanes and Publick Places within the said City of Bristoll may alwaies hereafter be kept free from all Filth Ashes Dirt and Dust which may any way annoy or prejudice the said Rivers or either of them or be offensive to the Citizens and Inhabitants of the said City and that proper Officers for that Purpose may be appointed with the least Burden to the Inhabitants It is hereby enacted That all and every such Person and Persons who now are or shall from henceforth within the said City be nominated and appointed to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the Highwaies within the severall Parishes and Precincts of the said City by force and virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the Third and Fourth Yeare of His present Majesties Reigne and the late Queene Mary of ever blessed Memory intituled An Act for the better repairing and amending of the High waies and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods shall for the Time that he or they shall continue in that Office have alsoe the Care of cleansing of the said Streets Lanes and Publick Places within the severall Precincts and Parishes for which he or they were or shall be chosen as aforesaid subject to such Orders and in such Manner as shall be directed by the said Mayor and Justices as aforesaid and all and every Person and Persons soe chosen or to be chosen and appointed by vertue of the said Act are hereby required within Six Daies after such Appointment to take upon them the Charge and Care of cleansing the said Streets Lanes and Publick Places as well as the said Office of Surveyor or Surveyors of the Highwaies within their respective Parishes and Precincts And whosoever of them shall refuse deny or delay to take upon him the said Office or wilfully neglect the Performance of the Duty thereof according to the true Intent and Meaneing of this Act shall forfeite for every such Refusall Deniall or Neglect the Summ of Five Pounds to be levied by Distresse in Manner as is aforesaid and for want of such Distresse by Imprisonment of the Offender untill Payment thereof be made and in case of absolute Deniall or Refusall to serve the said Office or Offices others shall be chosen into the Roome or Place of such Person or Persons soe refuseing or denying in Manner as aforesaid",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/23/section/XI",
    "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."
}