# Highways Surrey and Sussex Act 1696, Section III: Sessions to appoint a Receiver of the Toll.


The Rates to be paid for Horses, Carts, &c; All Persons to pay Rates to Collector; Place for collecting Toll to be on the Highway, and a Turnpike set up; Collector to give in a monthly Account on Oath; Sessions to examine same; Refusing to pay the Toll, Collector to distrain; Distress paid to Surveyors.
And for defraying of the Charge in and about the Reparations to be done in the Places aforesaid Be it further enacted That the said Justices att their special Sessions aforesaid shall and may choose and appoint one or more fitt Person or Persons to be Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors of such Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money in the name of Toll or Custome to be paid for all such Horses Coaches Carts Waggons Droves and Gangs of Cattle as in to come shall passe be led or droven in or through the said Way as are hereafter in this Act limitted (that is to say) For every Horse one Penny for every Stage-Coach or Hackney-Coach six Pence for every other Coach Calash or Chariot six Pence for every Waggon six Pence for every Cart six Pence for every score of Sheep or Lambs one Penny and so proportionable for every greater or lesser Number for every score of Calves two Pence for every score of Hoggs two Pence and so for every greater or lesser Number of Calves or Hoggs proportionably not being under five for every score of Oxen or Neat Cattell six Pence and so for every greater or lesser Number proportionably And that from and after the passing this Act all & Person and Persons who shall travel or passe with Horse Coach Cart or Waggon or that shall passe lead or drive any Oxen Sheep or other Cattel before mentioned in and through the Highway aforesaid shall and are hereby required to pay unto the said Collector or Collectors Receiver or Receivers of Toll in that behalfe from time to time to be appointed as aforesaid after the Rates aforesaid the Place or Places for collecting the said Toll to be in some convenient Place upon the High-way in or neare the said Lanes by setting upp a Turnpike or Gate Turnpikes or Gates there as the Justices of the Peace att the next special Sessions to be held for the said County next after the passing this Act shall direct and appoint and the Person or p[er]sons Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors appointed as aforesaid for the receiving of the said Toll shall give in a true monthly Account upon Oath unto one or more Justices of the Peace that lives neare to the Lanes aforesaid (which Oath they are hereby impowered to administer) which said Account shall be duely returned to the Justices of the Peace att the next Special Sessions to be holden for the Hundred aforesaid who shall thereupon examine the same and make such Orders therein as to them shall seem meet according to the true meaning of this Act and in case any Person or Persons upon demand made of Toll aforesaid by the Collector or Receiver (in that behalfe to be appointed) shall neglect or refuse to pay the same That then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Collector or Receiver appointed for Receipt of the said Toll upon such Refusal to distraine and detaine such Horse Cart Coach Calash Chariott Waggon Oxen or other Cattle before mentioned or any of them until the said Toll shall be satisfied and paid according to the Tenour of this present Act together with such Damags as the Party or Parties so distraining shall sustaine in and about the making the said Distresse or by the keeping thereof Which said Moneys so to be received shall be paid proportionably to the said Surveyors for and towards the Amendment of the said Lanes according to the true meaning hereof and not elsewhere.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/15/section/III (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/highways-surrey-and-sussex-act-1696/section-III
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