# Newcastle (Sale of Coal by Measured Keel) Act 1694, Section IV: The Marks on Keels, Wains, &c. removed or altered;


Penalty £10. Distress; If no sufficient Distress, Imprisonment in County Gaol for Three Months. How Penalty applied; Such Keels, Wains, &c. remeasured. marked, and nailed.
And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That in case after the admeasurement marking and nailing of any Keel Boat Wain or Cart the mark shall bee removed or altered whereby to frustrate the intent and meaning of this Act that every person and persons that shall have a hand in or bee privy to the doeing thereof and shall upon proof thereof by one or more credible witnesses before any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace of the Counties where the said offence shall happen to bee com[m]itted & convicted thereof such person or persons soe as aforesaid convicted shall forfeit the su[m]m of Ten pounds to bee levied upon his or their Goods and Chattels by distress and sale thereof by warrant under the hand and seale of the said Justice or Justices rendring the overplus (if any) to the partie or parties distrained upon and for want of sufficient distresse the parties soe offending shall by like warrant bee committed to the common Gaol of the said County where the offence shall bee committed there to remaine for the space of Three months without bail or mainprize one halfe part of the said forfeiture to his Majestie his heires and successors and the other halfe part thereof to such person or persons as shall make such discovery and alsoe that after any such offence as aforesaid committed by altering or removing any of the marks or nails that shall bee sett upon any such Keels Boats Wains or Carts by virtue of this Act that from thenceforth and soe. often as any such offence shall bee comitted as aforesaid the said Co[m]missioners or any Three of them or such person or persons as shall bee by them appointed shall have authority and are hereby authorized and impowered to admeasure mark and nail the said Keels Boats Wains and Carts anew according to the directions hereby before given.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/6-7/10/section/IV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/newcastle-sale-of-coal-by-measured-keel-act-1694/section-IV
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