{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gloucestershire-roads-act-1697/section-XIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gloucestershire-roads-act-1697/section-XIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/18",
  "legislation_title": "Gloucestershire Roads Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gloucestershire-roads-act-1697",
  "path": "section/XIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIII",
  "heading": "Persons giving such Security to levy 6d. in the Pound upon Parishes in which the Highways lie; and to cause Stat. 3& 4 W.& M.c.12. to be executed.",
  "text": "If Toll and Levy not sufficient, Persons so giving Security may make further Assessment; Distress; Persons giving Security not executing, this Act, Penalty.\nAnd to the end the Persons so giving Security may be the better enabled to repaire & amend the said Highway Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Persons so giving Security shall have full Power and Authority and are hereby required to levy for the space of Twenty Yeares from and after the Foure and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety and eight the Su[m]m of Six Pence in the Pound together with all the Arreares thereof on all the Parishes in which the said Highway or any part thereof doth lie towards the repairing the said Highway and that they cause to be done and performed by the Parishioners within the said Parishes all such things as are required to be done and performed by an Act made in the Third & Fourth Yeares of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods or by any other Act whatsoever And in case the Toll required to be collected by this Act together with the Su[m]m charged on the said Parishes shall not be sufficient to putt the said Highway in sufficient repaire within the time limitted by this Act the said Persons so giveing Security have hereby full Power & Authority to cause to be assessed levied and collected the Su[m]m of Two Pence in the Pound on the Hundred and Hundreds in which the said Highway or any part thereof doth lie which said Assessments of Two Pence in the Pound shall be levied by Distresse and Sale, of the Goods of the Person so assessed (not paying the same within Ten Days after demand) rendring to the Owner the Overplus if any shall be and in case the said Persons so giving Security shall neglect or refuse to doe and performe what is required by virtue of this Act to be done and performed by them they shall forfeit for such their Offence the Su[m]m of One hundred. Pounds every Yeare to such Person or Persons who shall sue for the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/18/section/XIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:55.259080+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."
}