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XVII. That if the Master, Manager, Captain,
Owner, or other Person having the rule or command
of any Boat, Barge, Keel, or other Vessel passing upon
the said Navigation or any part thereof, shall at any
time demand, ask for or receive, of or from the Clerk
or other officer of the said Navigation, without being
entitled to the same, any drawback which shall be
allowed by the Rules or Regulations of the said
Navigation, such Master, Manager, Captain, Owner
or other Person, having such rule or command as
aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five Pounds,
as and for a penalty for every such offence.
In Witness whereof of this said Bye Law has been
put into writing under the Common Seai of the Com-
pany in the presence of such General Assembly and in
accordance with the provisions of the said hereinbefore
recited Act, passed in the sixteenth year of the reign
of his late Majesty King George the Third.
BYE LAW
Made at a General Assembly of the Proprietors of the
Stroudwater Navigation Company, held at Wall-
bridge, in the Parish of Painswick, in the County of
Gloucester, on Thursday, the Twenty-fourth day of
October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and forty-four, in pursuance of and in
accordance with the Provisions of a certain Act of
Parliament made and passed in the sixteenth year of
the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third,
intituled
“An Act to amend an Act passed in the third year
“of his late Majesty’s reign, intituled, ‘An Act for
“making navigable the River Stroudwater, in the
“County of Gloucester, From the River Severn, at or
“near Framilode, to Wallbridge, near the Town of
“Stroud in the same County ; and for giving other
“Powers for the purpose of making a Navigation
“From Framiload to Wallbvidge aforesaid.”
