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TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - LONG TITLE

An Act for the Regulation of levying Tolls at Fairs, Markets, and
Ports in Ireland.{1}
[11th July 1817]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1890 (No. 2)

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 1
Boards specifying tolls, &c. to be erected at fairs, markets, and
ports.

1. All persons collecting customs, tolls, or duties, or claiming the
same, at any fair, market, or port in Ireland, shall erect, affix,
and keep up, during the whole continuance of such fair or market,
in some conspicuous place at each principal entrance of the same,
and the principal quay or landing place at each port, a painted
board, having thereon a schedule in large and legible characters,
specifying distinctly the custom, toll, or duty claimed on each and
every article or thing sold at such fair or market, or landed at
such port, and the names of the person collecting the same, and of
the person or persons or corporation claiming right to the same, so
that such boards may be referred to and examined by all persons
desirous of so doing.

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 2
Penalty on levying tolls without having such boards erected, #2.

2. Every person who shall attempt to collect or levy any custom,
toll, or duty, without having previously erected such boards as
aforesaid, or without having kept up the same as aforesaid, shall
for every custom, toll, or duty which he shall attempt to collect
or levy, either in money or kind, not being specified on such
boards as aforesaid, or at a time when such boards shall not be
up as aforesaid, forfeit for every such offence the sum of [#2]....

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 3
Proviso for boards removed by violence, &c.

3. Provided always, that in case it shall appear that the toll
board or boards shall have been defaced or removed by violence,
then such collector shall not be liable to such penalty, unless he
shall neglect to reinstate such boards as soon as the same may be
reasonably done.

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 4
Penalty on defacing or removing such boards.

4. Every person who shall deface or remove such board or boards,
or shall be engaged in any riot in which such board or boards
shall be defaced or removed, shall forfeit five pounds....

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 5
Recovery of penalties.

5. The penalties herein-before set forth shall be recoverable and
recovered, on summary conviction of either of the offences aforesaid,
before any two magistrates....

S.6 rep. by SLR 1980

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 7
Schedules of tolls to be delivered to chief clerk.

7. All persons or corporations claiming a right to levy any custom,
toll, or duty, at any fair or market or at any port in Ireland,
shall and they are hereby required, to deliver in to the [chief
clerk for the county court division] where such custom, toll, or
duty may be claimed, a schedule of the tolls, customs, and duties
claimed by such persons or corporations on every article sold at
such fairs or markets, or landed at such ports; and in default
thereof that it shall not be lawful for any such persons or
corporations to levy any such custom, toll, or duty, or any person
for them; and that such persons or corporations, and all persons
attempting to levy any custom, toll, or duty for them, shall incur
and forfeit such penalty or penalties as have been provided by law
against persons taking illegal tolls:....

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 8
Chief clerk to give certificate of registry of schedules.

8. The [chief clerk] shall keep a registry of all such schedules,
and shall give to every person or corporation as aforesaid a
certificate of having registered such schedule, when such schedule
shall be delivered to him.

TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 9
Proviso for rights, &c., of persons claiming tolls, &c.

9. Nothing in this Act shall (except as in herein-before provided)
extend, diminish, or alter the rights of persons claiming or paying
customs, tolls, or duties at such fairs, markets, or ports, or the
penalties to which they may become liable, or their mode of
redress, otherwise than as the same are at present by law
established.