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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/minehead-harbour-act-1700/section-XIII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/12-13/9",
  "legislation_title": "Minehead Harbour Act 1700",
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  "number": "XIII",
  "heading": "Recital of 9 W. III. c. 12.",
  "text": "Reasons for passing this Enactment; An Account of Monies expended by Corporation of Bridgewater, and of additional Duty in the said Act mentioned received, to be entered and kept; Collectors, &c. to produce Books and Accounts at Quarter Sessions for the County of Somerset, yearly; Quarter Sessions to examine and allow or disallow the same; and may summon and examine Parties upon Oath; Duplicate of Account allowed to be signed and sealed, as herein mentioned, and recorded in Sessions; In what Case and in what Manner the said additional Duty to cease.\nAnd whereas by vertue of an Act of Parliament made in the Ninth and Tenth Years of His Majesties Reign intituled An Act for the inlarging repairing and preserving the Bridge and Key of the Borough of Bridgwater in the County of Somerset a Power is given to the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of the said Borough and their Successors in Common Councill assembled or the major Part of them to lay and levy severall Sums of Money as an additionall Duty upon all Goods and Marchandizes which shall be imported or unladen in the said Port of Bridgwater which said Power the said Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty have extended to the utmost by means whereof the said Duties levyed as aforesaid amount to a considerable yearly Value and will in all likelyhood be sufficient to defray all the necessary Charges and Expences relating to the said Bridge and Key and discharge all the Debts of the said Corporation contracted for or the Securities given by the said Corporation upon account of inlarging repairing and preserving the said Bridge and Key and answer all other the Intents and Purposes of the said Act in a shorter Time than in and by the said Act is granted if a fair and just Account of the Receipts and Disbursements of the severall Sums of Money granted and collected for the Purposes aforesaid could be obtained and which said Sums are for the most part paid by the Inhabitants of the County of Somerset And whereas there has been no Account yet given of what Sums of Money have been recieved nor how and to what Purposes the said Sums have been from time to time disbursed expended and applyed to the great Discouragement of the Inhabitants of the said County so largely contributing to the same to the end therefore that the said Inhabitants may be satisfied how the said Sums of Money so levyed upon them as aforesaid are disposed of and that they may be eased of the same as soon as the ends of the said Act are answered and that the said additionall Duty may be expended and applyed according to the true intent and meaning of the said Act only and not otherwise and that a true and just Account may be had and rendred from time to time of all the Receipts and Disbursements of the said Sums so collected as aforesaid and for the more effectuall providing for and enforcing the same Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a true and perfect Account of all Expences Costs and Charges disbursed or to be disbursed by the said Mayor Aldermen and Comonalty and their Successors or any of them or by their Order and of all Money by them or any of them or by any other by their Appointment to be collected or recieved for the additionall Duty upon the Goods or Marchandizes in the said Act mentioned and that shall be levied according to the Direction and Appointment of the said Act shall be duely entred and kept in a Book or Books to be provided and kept for that Purpose by such Person or Persons as are or shall be nominated and impowered to collect and recieve the said Duties and to dispose and issue out the same by the said Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty according to the Directions of the said Act And the Collectors Recievers or other Persons so imployed or appointed as aforesaid shall at the Generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace which shall be holden for the said County of Somerset next after the Four and twentieth Day of June which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and one and Once in every Year after or oftner if the said Justices in the said Sessions shall think fitt and order produce and bring before the said Justices in their said Sessions the said Book and Books and all their Accounts relating to the Money recieved or disbursed by vertue of the said Act and the Vouchers for the same And the said Justices in their said Sessions are hereby impowered to examine state correct allow and disallow of any Item or Items or any of the said Accounts or Disbursements so produced before them And the said Justices the better to enable them to examine and correct the said Accounts are hereby impowered and authorized to summon before them any Person interested or not interested and to examine them upon Oath touching the truth of any Matter contained in or omitted out of the said Books or Accounts touching any Receipts or Disbursements recieved or made by vertue of the said Act And when the said Account is so examined stated and corrected and by the said Justices in the said Sessions allowed a Duplicate thereof shall be made signed and sealed by the said Justices or the major Part of them and shall be kept amongst the Records of the Sessions of the Peace of the said County of Somersett And when it shall appear to the said Justices in their said Generall Quarter Sessions or the major Part of them there the said Bridge and Key are sufficiently inlarged and repaired as the said Act directs and the Moneys for that Purpose borrowed and the other Debts contracted upon that Account and the Interest paid and satisfied for the same and other necessary Charges allowed or that there has been Money raised by vertue of the said Act and according to the usuall way of levying the same sufficient to have performed all the Ends and Intencions of the said Act and upon Six Months Notice thereof by the Justices in their said Sessions or the major Part of them under the Hands and Seals of the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty or to any Five of them the Mayor for the Time being to be one then the said additionall Duty only so given by the said Act shall cease Any thing in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding",
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