Section IV Quarter Sessions to appoint Receivers of Tolls.

Tolls; Persons required to pay such Tolls; Where Toll House or Turnpike to be; Receiver to give a Weekly Account of Tolls on Oath to Justices, to be returned to Quarter Sessions to be examined, and Order made thereon; Persons refusing to pay Toll; Horse, &c. may be detained by Receiver of Toll; Damages; Application of Money received.

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 the Quarter 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 Carts Coaches Waggons Droves and Gangs of Cattle as in time 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 One shilling For every Cart Eight pence For every Score of Sheep or Lambs One penny and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Number For every Score of Calves Three pence For every Score of Hoggs Three 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 Cattle Six pence and so for every greater or lesser Number proportionably And that from and after the passing of this Act all and every Person and Persons who shall travel with Horse Coach Cart or Waggon or shall lead or drive any Oxen Sheep or other Cattle 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 for collecting the said Toll to be in some convenient. Place upon the said Highway between Brentwood and Ingatestone aforesaid by setting upp a Turnpike or otherwise as the Justices of the Peace att the next Quarter Sessions to be held for the said County next after the passing of this Act shall direct and appoint But in the meane time until the said Quarter Sessions shall happen Itt is hereby enacted That Two Justices of the Peace who live neare to Shenfeild aforesaid shall and may order a Turnpike to be sett upp att or neare to Mountnessing and appoint one or more Person or P[er]sons to be Receiver or Receivers Collector or Collectors of the said Toll there who shall give in a Weekly Account thereof upon Oath to the said Justices of Peace or one of them who shall truely returne the same to the next Quarter Sessions and all the Money so to be collected shall be paid for the purposes appointed by this Act as the Justices of Peace att the said Quarter Sessions shall direct And further also That every Receiver or Collector to be afterwards appointed by the Justices of the Peace att the Quarter Sessions for the receiving of the said Toll shall give in a Weekly Account upon Oath unto one or more Justices of the Peace that lives neare to Shenfeild aforesaid (which Oath they are hereby impowered to administer) which said Accompt shall be duely returned to the Justices of Peace att the next Quarter Sessions 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 Charriott Waggon Oxen or other Cattle before mentioned or any of them until the said Toll shall be satisfied and paid according to the Tenor of this present Act together with such Damages as the Party or Parties so distraining shall sustaine in and about the making of the said Distresse or by the keeping thereof which said Moneys so to be received shall be paid proportionably to the said respective Surveyors for & towards the Amendment of the said Ruinous Places in the said Highways according to the true Meaning hereof and not elsewhere.