Section VIII Regulations as to Number of Horses and Oxen drawing Waggons, &c.

Exception.; and as to Weight of Burthen; and as to Breadth of Wheels.; Penalty 40s.; To be levied by Distress.; Penalties not paid; Distress to be sold.

And be it further enacted by the X1Authoroty aforesaid That from and after the Nine and twentieth day of September which shall bee in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two no travelling Waggon Wayn Cart or Carriage wherein any Burthens Goods or Wares are or shall be carried or drawn for hire (other then such Carts and Carriages as are imployed in and about husbandry and manuring of Lands and in the carrying of Hay Straw Corne unthreshed Coal Chalk Timber for Shipping Materials for building Stones of all sorts or such Ammunition or Artillery as shall be for His Majesties Service) shall att any one time travel be drawn or go in any Common or Publique High way or Road with above seaven Horse-beasts whereof six shall drawe in paires and not with above eight Oxen or six Oxen and two Horse-beasts nor shall att any time carry above Twenty hundred weight betweene the First day of October and the First X2day of May nor above Thirty hundred weight betweene the First of May and the First of October (except such particulars as aforesaid) nor above five Quarters of Wheate Meal Mesline Rye Pease Beanes and Tares nor above eight Quarters of Barley Malt or Oates and after that proportion nor shall any Waggon Wayne Cart or Carriage for the uses aforesaid be imployed the Wheeles whereof are lesse in breadth then foure Inches in the Tyre upon pain that every Owner of such Waggon Wayn Cart Carriage Horse-beasts or Oxen shall forfeit for every of the said Offences the su[m]m of Forty shillings to bee devided into three equal parts One part thereof to the Surveyors of the High wayes of the Town Village or Hamlet where any of the said Offences shall be committed to bee imployed in the Repaires of the said High wayes One other part to the Overseers of the Poore of the Parish where any of the said Offences shall be committed for the releife of the Poore of the said Parish and the other part thereof to him that shall discover and prosecute for any of the said Offences the said penalty to be levied by Distresse of all or any of the said Horsebeasts or Oxen and to be distributed as aforesaid by the Constable Surveyor or Surveyors of the said High wayes Overseer or Overseers of the Poore or any of them And in case the said penalties shall not be paid within three dayes after such Distresse that then it shall be lawfull to and for the said persons so distraining as aforesaid to sell the same and to restore the Overplus to the Owner the Charges of keeping and selling first deducted.