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aforesaid, shall 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 Com-
pany in the presence of such General Assembiy and
in accordance with the Provisions of the hereinbefore
recited Act passed in the sixteenth year of his late
Majesty King George the Third.
BYE LAW
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, 1844,
in pursuance of and 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 Framiload, 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 Wallbridge aforesaid,'”
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 Assembly,
as a Bye Law
XX. That all and every persons or person, who
shall without any lawful cause or reason, open any
Swivel Bridge upon or over the said Navigation,
or who shall unnecessarily swing any such Bridge or
do any damage whatever to the same, shall forfeit and
pay the sum of Five Pounds, as an for a Penalty for
every such offence.
