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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/minehead-harbour-act-1700/section-VII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/12-13/9",
  "legislation_title": "Minehead Harbour Act 1700",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/minehead-harbour-act-1700",
  "path": "section/VII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VII",
  "heading": "Persons authorized by Trustees may enter Vessels and receive the Duties;",
  "text": "and on Nonpayment may distrain Ship, &c.; and if Duties not paid Ten Days after Distress.; Collector, &c. may sell, and apply Proceeds as herein mentioned.\nAnd be it further enacted That it shall and may be lawfull to and for any Person or Persons authorized and deputed by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said Trustees for the Time being or the major Part of them to go on Board any Ship Hoy Bark or other Vessell to demand collect and recieve the said Duties by this Act due and payable and for Non payment thereof to take and distrain every such Ship or Vessell and all her Tackle Apparell and Furniture thereunto belonging or any Part thereof and the same to detain and keep untill he or they be satisfyed and paid the said Sums of Money and every of them and in case of any Neglect or Delay in Payment of any the said Duties for Ten Days after any Distress or Distresses so taken as aforesaid that then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Collector and Collectors Reciever and Recievers of the said Duties and any of them to sell the said Distress or Distresses so taken and therewith to satisfie him or themselves as well for and concerning the Duties so neglected or delayed to be paid and for which a Distress shall be so taken as aforesaid as also for his or their reasonable Charge in the taking or keeping such Distress rendring to the Master or other Person having the Rule or Command of the Ship or Vessell in or from which such Distress shall be so taken the Overplus if any there shall be",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: thereto O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
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      "label": "X3",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/9/section/VII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:07.199645+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."
}