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Power to appoint collectors and enforce payment of tolls.
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13. It shall be lawful for the said commissioners, in cases in which such tolls shall not be leased or let, and for the lessees or lessee of such tolls if leased or let, from time to time to appoint sufficient collectors and officers or agents for the purpose of receiving the tolls payable under this Act; and in case any person liable to pay such tolls shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, or for the lessees or lessee of the said tolls, or their officer or agent or other person to whom such toll ought to have been paid, to seize the vessel, goods, articles, and things, in respect of which such tolls ought to have been paid, wherever the same may be found, and to detain the same until such tolls, together with the reasonable cost and expenses of such seizure and detention, shall be paid; and if such vessels, goods, articles, and things shall not be redeemed within twenty-one days after the seizure thereof, the same shall be appraised and sold, and, after deducting the costs of such seizure, detention, and sale, all such sums as shall be due in respect of such toll shall be satisfied thereout, and the over-plus paid to the owner, in like manner as the law directs in cases of distress for rent in arrear.
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