Commons Act 1791
COMMONS ACT 1791 | ||
CHAP. XXXVIII | ||
An Act to amend an Act, Entitled, An Act for preventing the Commission of Waste, on the several Commons of this Kingdom. | ||
Recital 29 Geo. 3. | ||
penalty for destroying the surface of any common not more than 5l. nor less than 5s. per square yard. | ||
WHEREAS an act passed in the twenty-ninth year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for preventing the commission of waste, on the several commons of this kingdom, has been found ineffectual for the purposes for which it was intended, and divers encroachments have been made upon several commons of this kingdom, by which means they have become receptacles of idle and disorderly persons : be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, if any person shall skin or otherwise destroy the surface of any common, or part of common within this kingdom, contrary to the provisions of the said recited act, every person so offending shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than five shillings, for every square yard of such common which he shall so skin or destroy, which said penalty shall be recovered and levied in like manner, and by such ways and means, as are prescribed and directed by the said recited act, in respect of the penalties thereby inflicted. |