# Fire at Northampton, Property Disputes Act 1675, Section IX: All Justices of the County that inhabit in the Town, shall be Justices in the Town.


Any Person, not free, building a House within Seven Years worth £300 to have his Freedom.
And for the better encouragement of Gentlemen and others to build and reside in the said Towne Bee it enacted by authority aforesaid That the Justices of the Peace for the County of Northampton from time to time being who shall be Inhabitants within the said Towne may for ever hereafter use and exercise their said Office to all intents and purposes within the said Towne and Liberties thereof, and in the Sessions of the said Towne to be held as they may or can doe in the said County at large, or in the publique Sessions thereof. And that all other persons who from time to time shall be Justices of the Peace for the said County shall for ever hereafter use and exercise the said Office within the said Towne and Liberties thereof dureing the time in which the Assizes and publique Sessions of the Peace for the said County shall be there kept, And that all and every such persons as are not Free of the said Towne and shall build any House or Houses in the said Towne to the value of Three hundred pounds or upwards (within seaven yeares) from the twentyeth day of September last past by and according to the Order of the said Court, such persons shall have liberty to exercise any Trade within the said Towne as any Freeman of the said Towne may doe.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/27/1/section/IX (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/fire-at-northampton-property-disputes-act-1675/section-IX
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