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Said tolls may be let annually,
Commissioners empowered to make rules, &c.
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XXXIV. Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners, and their successors, or any five or more of them, to demise or let on every first Monday in each and every month of September, during the continuance of said tolls, by publick cant on the Exchange of said city, first giving eight days notice thereof in the publick news-papers, and posting the same in the exchange of said city, the said tolls, or any tolls appointed by virtue of this act, for any term not exceeding one year, at the highest rent that shall be offered and bid for the same by a solvent tenant or tenants; and the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, are hereby required and empowered, under their hands and seals, to appoint the said tenant or tenants thereof, his or their servant or servants, to receive and collect said tolls for such term as aforesaid, and to erect such toll-gate or toll-gates as aforesaid; and the said commissioners are hereby empowered to make and ordain such rules and regulations as they or their successors, or any five or more of them, shall judge necessary and expedient for the better collecting the tolls aforesaid.
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