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Penalty not exceeding 5l but not less than 10s. on pulling up or destroying Posts or Banks to be set up on the Sides of the Roads, for Security thereof, or the Parapets of Bridges; or defacing Mile-stones, or Direction Posts; And whereas in some Places it hath been, and may
be, found necessary to secure Horse and Foot Causeways,
in Public highways, by Posts, Blocks, or great Stones,
fixt in the Ground, or by Banks of Earth cast up, or
otherwise, from being broken and spoiled with Waggons,
Wains, Carts or Carriages: and forasmuch as
several evil-disposed Persons may wilfully or maliciously pull up, cut down, and remove the said Posts, Blocks,
and great Stones, so fixed as aforesaid, and also dig
and cast down the said Banks, which are the Security
and Defence of the said Causeways, whereby they are
often ruined and destroyed; and such evil-disposed Persons
may break, damage, or throw down the Stones,
Bricks, or Wood, fixed upon the Parapets or Battlements
of Bridges, and may pull down, destroy, obliterate,
or deface any Mile-stone or Post graduated, or
Direction-post or Stone, erected, or to be erected, upon
any Turnpike Road for the Purposes aforesaid: For
prevention thereof, be it enacted, That every person
who shall be guilty of any such Offence shall, upon complaint
thereof made to any Justice of the Peace of the
County, Division, or Place, where the same shall be
proved to be done, by the Oath of any one credible
Witness, or upon View of the Justice himself, forfeit,
for every of the said Offences, any Sum not
exceeding

6X
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Or the Offender may be committed, and kept ot hard labour, and whipt -ceeding five Pounds, nor less than Ten Shillings; or
be committed to the House of Correction of such County,
Division, or Place, there to be whipped, and kept to
hard Labour for any time not exceeding One calendar
Month, nor less than Seven Days, at the Discretion

said Justice.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	079	Main Headings
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field	sect. xii persons at large
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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