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Section VI Forfeitures to be demanded the same Day as Offence committed; and Complaint to be made to a Justice of Quorum; Party to have Notice the next Time he comes, or else not liable.

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And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Forfeiture or Forfeitures for any Offence or Offences att any time or times hereafter to be incurred for staying or continuing longer in the said Markett called the Hay-Markett then is in and by the said recited Act appointed shall be demanded in the said Markett place by the Person ringing the said Bell the same Day on which such Offence or Offences shall or may happen to be co[m]mitted and Complaint shall be made of every such Offence to some one Justice of the Quorum within the said County or City and Liberty of of Westminster before the next immediate succeeding Markett Day of which Complaint Notice shall be given to the Party offending the next time hee comes to the said Markett or else no Person or Persons using the said Hay-Markett shall be liable to or chargeable with any Forfeiture or Forfeitures for staying longer in the said Markett for the Purposes aforesaid than in and by the said recited Act is limitted and appointed the said recited Act or any thing therein X1 contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or herein before O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]