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Penalty on Persons assaulting Officers and others engaged in the Works, &c.
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LX. And be it enacted, That if any Person or Persons shall wilfully prevent, assault, or threaten to assault any of the Commissioners for the Execution of this Act, or any Engineer or other Officer, Servant, or Workman acting in aid or under the Orders of any such Commissioner in the Execution of any of the Powers given by this Act, or shall wilfully destroy or injure any of the Instruments, Tools, or Implements of the said Commissioners, or of any of them, or of any Person or Persons employed by them or any of them in the Execution of any of the Works under this Act, or shall injure, damage, or destroy any of the Piers, Quays, Landing Places, Wharfs, Beacons, or Lighthouses, or any Work or Works, or any Part thereof, executed or in progress or which shall have been executed under this Act, or any of the Materials for the Execution thereof, or shall persist in doing, after having been required by the said Commissioners or any of them, or any Person acting under them, not to do or continue to do, any Matter or Thing injurious to any of the Works erected or in progress under this Act, or shall do any other Matter or Thing prohibited by any of the Provisions of this Act, any Person so offending shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence, upon Conviction thereof by the Oaths of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses before any Justice or Justices of the Peace for the County wherein such Offence shall have been committed, such Sum, not exceeding Five Pounds, as such Justice or Justices shall think fit.
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