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Power of Re-entry in case of Non-performance of the Conditions of Leases, &c.
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LIV. And be it enacted, That in case any of the Rates or Tolls by this Act authorized to be taken shall be demised or let, and the Lessee thereof shall refuse or neglect to perform the Terms and Conditions on which the same shall be so demised or let, or any of them; or in case all or any Part of any Rent agreed to be paid by any such Lessee shall be in arrear or unpaid for the Space of Twenty Days next after any of the Days on which the same ought to be paid pursuant to the Lease or Demise of such Rates or Tolls; or in case any Collector of any of the said Rates or Tolls appointed by the said Commissioners as aforesaid shall be discharged from his Office, or shall die, abscond, or absent himself, and any such Collector who shall be so discharged, or the Wife, Widow, or any of the Children or Family or any Representative of any such Collector, or any other Person being in Possession thereof, shall refuse to deliver up or shall not deliver up Possession of any Toll House, Office, or other Building, with the Appurtenances thereto respectively belonging, to be erected or provided under the Powers or used for the Purposes of this Act, within the Space of Seven Days next after a Demand thereof in Writing, signed by any Two of the said Commissioners, shall be given to him, or affixed to such Toll House, Office, or Building; or in case any such Lease or Demise shall in any Manner become void or voidable; then and in any of the said Cases it shall be lawful for any Two or more Justices of the Peace acting within their Jurisdiction, upon any Application made by the said Commissioners, by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said Justices, to order any Constable or other Peace Officer, with such Assistance as shall be necessary to enter upon and take Possession of every or any such Toll House, Office, or other Building, with the Appurtenances, and to remove and put such Lessee, Collector, or other Person as shall be found therein, together with his Goods, from and out of the same and the Possession thereof, and from the Collection of such Rates or Tolls, and to put the said Commissioners, their Agent or their new Lessee or Collector into the Possession thereof; and thereupon it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to vacate and determine the Lease and Demise or Agreement (if any) which was previously subsisting, and the same shall accordingly be utterly void to all Intents and Purposes (save as to the Covenants and Agreements unperformed by the said Lessees; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners in every such Case, either during such Proceedings or on the Termination thereof again to demise or let the said Tolls or Rates in such and the same Manner as if no former Demise or Agreement had been made with respect thereto.
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