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If Disputes should arise about the Amount of Tolls, the Collectors may weigh the Goods in order to ascertain Amount to be paid.
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XVIII. If any Dispute or Difference shall arise between the Collectors of the Rates or Tolls made payable under this Act and the Owner, Master, or Person having charge of any Boat, Barge, or other Vessel, or the Owner of any Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, or other Things chargeable with or liable to the Payment of any of the said Rates or Tolls, concerning the Weight or Quantity of the same, it shall be lawful for such Collector to stop and detain any such Boat, Barge, or other Vessel, and to weigh, measure, or gauge, or cause to be measured, weighed, or gauged, all such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, or other Things as shall be in any Vessel where and when any Dispute shall arise; and in case any such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, or other Things shall, upon such weighing, measuring, or gauging, appear to be of as much Weight, Measure, or Quantity as or of greater Quantity than such Collector did insist and affirm the same to be before the weighing, measuring, or gauging thereof, so as to make the same chargeable with or liable to the Payment of as much Money as or more Money than was demanded by the Collector before the weighing, measuring, or gauging of such Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, or other Things, then and in such Case the Master or Owner of such Boat, Barge, or other Vessel, or the Owner of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise so weighed or measured or gauged, shall pay the Costs and Charges of such weighing, measuring, or gauging thereof; all which said Costs and Charges, upon Refusal of Payment thereof on Demand, shall and may be recovered as the Rates and Tolls made payable in and by this Act are appointed to be recovered; but in case such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, or other Things, shall, upon such weighing, measuring, or gauging, appear to be of no greater Weight or Quantity than the Master or Owner declared the same to be before the weighing, measuring, or gauging thereof, then and in such Case such Collector shall pay the Costs and Charges of such weighing, measuring, or gauging, and shall also pay to the Master or Person having charge of such Boat, Barge, or other Vessel, or to the Owner of such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, a Sum not exceeding Two Shillings and Sixpence for every Hour that, such Boat, Barge, or other Vessel shall be detained by occasion of such weighing, measuring, or gauging, and so in proportion for any greater or less Time than an Hour; and in default of immediate Payment thereof the same shall be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of such Collector, or of any Lessee of such Rates or Tolls by whom such Collector may have been employed, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any Two Justices of the Peace for the County, Liberty, or Place where such Collector shall reside, rendering the Overplus to the Owner thereof after such Distress and Sale made.
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