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It was in accordance with the Provisions of the said
recited Act, and for the good government of the said
Company, and the good and orderly using of the said
Navigation, ORDERED AND ENACTED by such General
Assembly, as a
BYE LAW
XVIII That 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 produce and
shew forth to the Surveyor and to every Wharfinger
or other Officer or Servant for the time being, of the
said Company, when requested so to do by such
Surveyor, or any such Wharfinger or other Officer or
Servant, the Let-pass Ticket or Document containing
an account of the number of Tons carried in or
conveyed by any such Boat, Barge, Keel, or other
Vessel; and in case such Master, Manager, Captain,
Owner or other Person having such rule or command
as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to produce such
Let-pass Ticket or Document, such Master, Manager,
Captain, Owner or other Person having such rule or
command as aforesaid, shail forfeit and pay the sum
of Five Pounds as and for a Penalty for every such
offence.
In Witness whereof this said Bye Law has been
put into writing under the Common Seal of the
Company 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 Wallbridge,
in the Parish of Painswick, in the County of Gloucester,
on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-four, in pursuance
