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TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - LONG TITLE An Act for the Regulation of levying Tolls at Fairs, Markets, and Ports in Ireland.{1} [11th July 1817] Preamble rep. by SLR 1890 (No. 2) TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 1 Boards specifying tolls, &c. to be erected at fairs, markets, and ports. 1. All persons collecting customs, tolls, or duties, or claiming the same, at any fair, market, or port in Ireland, shall erect, affix, and keep up, during the whole continuance of such fair or market, in some conspicuous place at each principal entrance of the same, and the principal quay or landing place at each port, a painted board, having thereon a schedule in large and legible characters, specifying distinctly the custom, toll, or duty claimed on each and every article or thing sold at such fair or market, or landed at such port, and the names of the person collecting the same, and of the person or persons or corporation claiming right to the same, so that such boards may be referred to and examined by all persons desirous of so doing. TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 2 Penalty on levying tolls without having such boards erected, #2. 2. Every person who shall attempt to collect or levy any custom, toll, or duty, without having previously erected such boards as aforesaid, or without having kept up the same as aforesaid, shall for every custom, toll, or duty which he shall attempt to collect or levy, either in money or kind, not being specified on such boards as aforesaid, or at a time when such boards shall not be up as aforesaid, forfeit for every such offence the sum of [#2].... TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 3 Proviso for boards removed by violence, &c. 3. Provided always, that in case it shall appear that the toll board or boards shall have been defaced or removed by violence, then such collector shall not be liable to such penalty, unless he shall neglect to reinstate such boards as soon as the same may be reasonably done. TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 4 Penalty on defacing or removing such boards. 4. Every person who shall deface or remove such board or boards, or shall be engaged in any riot in which such board or boards shall be defaced or removed, shall forfeit five pounds.... TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 5 Recovery of penalties. 5. The penalties herein-before set forth shall be recoverable and recovered, on summary conviction of either of the offences aforesaid, before any two magistrates.... S.6 rep. by SLR 1980 TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 7 Schedules of tolls to be delivered to chief clerk. 7. All persons or corporations claiming a right to levy any custom, toll, or duty, at any fair or market or at any port in Ireland, shall and they are hereby required, to deliver in to the [chief clerk for the county court division] where such custom, toll, or duty may be claimed, a schedule of the tolls, customs, and duties claimed by such persons or corporations on every article sold at such fairs or markets, or landed at such ports; and in default thereof that it shall not be lawful for any such persons or corporations to levy any such custom, toll, or duty, or any person for them; and that such persons or corporations, and all persons attempting to levy any custom, toll, or duty for them, shall incur and forfeit such penalty or penalties as have been provided by law against persons taking illegal tolls:.... TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 8 Chief clerk to give certificate of registry of schedules. 8. The [chief clerk] shall keep a registry of all such schedules, and shall give to every person or corporation as aforesaid a certificate of having registered such schedule, when such schedule shall be delivered to him. TOLLS (IRELAND) ACT 1817 - SECT 9 Proviso for rights, &c., of persons claiming tolls, &c. 9. Nothing in this Act shall (except as in herein-before provided) extend, diminish, or alter the rights of persons claiming or paying customs, tolls, or duties at such fairs, markets, or ports, or the penalties to which they may become liable, or their mode of redress, otherwise than as the same are at present by law established.