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or Occupier of any House or other Hereditament which shall be
rated and assessed by virtue or in pursuance of this Act, by the
Ways and Means and in the Manner last hereby authorized and
directed, shall refuse or neglect by the Space of Fourteen Days
next after his, her or their respective Rate or Rates, Assessment
or Assessments shall be due, and shall be demanded by the Church-
wardens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or Parishioners to
whom the same ought to be paid (such Demand being left in
Writing at the House, Shop, Warehouse, Cellar, Wharf, Quay,
Crane, Waterhouse, Toft or other Hereditaments or Premises
possessed, rented or occupied by him, her or them, so rated and
assessed) to pay such Rate or Rates, Assessment or Assessments,

Sums assessed by the Churchwardens, &c.

so demanded as aforesaid, unless Notice of Appeal shall have been Notice of Ap-
left as last before mentioned; or if any such Notice be left, and peal.
if such Appeal shall not be made accordingly, to the next Court

of Mayor and Aldermen as aforesaid, then and in every such Case Proceedings if
it shall be lawful for such Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and Appeal not
Parishioner or Parishioners, every or any of them, having a War- prosecuted.
rant or Warrants under the Hand and Seal of the Lord Mayor, or
any other Magistrate of the said City, (which Warrant or Warrants
the said Churchwardens or Churchwarden, and Parishioner or
Parishioners, is and are hereby required to apply for, and the Lord
Mayor or any other Magistrate of the said City, is hereby autho-
rized and required to grant,) and with the Assistance of a
Constable, or any Peace Officer of the Ward, County, City or
Liberty, where the Person or Persons, Party or Parties so refusing
or neglecting, shall reside, there to seize and distrain any of the
Goods and Chattels of the Person or Persons, Party or Parties so
refusing or neglecting to pay, or to seize and distrain any of the Distress.
Goods and Chattels, of the Occupier or Occupiers for the time
being of the Tenements or Hereditaments, in respect whereof
such Arrears shall be due or owing; and if the same shall not be
replevied, or such Rate or Assessment paid within Five Days next
after such Distress made, together with the Costs and Charges
thereof, then to appraise and sell so much of the said Goods and
Chattels as shall be sufficient to pay the said Rate or Assessment,
and the Costs and Charges attending such Distress and Sale,
returning the Overplus (if any) to the Owner or Owners of such
Goods and Chattels, the said Costs and Charges to be settled and
allowed by the said Lord Mayor, or other Magistrate who shall
have granted such Warrant or Warrants respectively: Provided Proviso re-
always, that no such Distress shall by virtue of this Act be made specting Dis-
out of the Limits of the said City and Liberties thereof, unless tress out of the
such Warrant or Warrants respectively shall be first backed or
City.
countersigned by some Magistrate of the County, City or Liberty
where such Distress is proposed to be made; which Warrant or
Warrants any Magistrate, who shall be applied to for that Purpose,
shall forthwith, and is hereby authorized and required to back or
countersign without Fee or Reward.

XVI. And be it further enacted, That when and so often as any If the Monies Quarterly Payment of any Annual Maintenance or Sum by this to be assessed Act authorized to be raised and paid, or so much thereof as shall by the last exceed what any Impropriator before mentioned is by this Act means shall be enjoined respectively to allow, shall happen to be in Arrear and

X x 3

unpaid

mentioned

unpaid for

Thirty Days after Quarter Day, the

same shall be

raised as the First

Assessment.

Exempting
Quakers from

being Collectors

under this Act.

Powers of 22 & 23 C.2. c.15. and of

this Act, vested in Lord Mayor

and Court of Aldermen, or

unpaid to the said respective Incumbent entitled to the same, or his respective Agent or Collector, or Receiver for the Space of Thirty Days next after any of the Quarterly Days hereinbefore appointed for the Payment thereof, then and in every such Case, from time to time, every such Quarterly Payment so in Arrear and unpaid shall and may be raised or levied and paid by the Ways and Means, and according to the Assessment, and in the Manner first hereinbefore authorized and directed in that Behalf.

XVII. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to compel or oblige any Person or Persons, being of the People called Quakers, to collect any of the Monies to be raised under or by virtue of this Act, but such Person or Persons is and are hereby excused and exempted from collecting the same.

XVIII. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the Powers and Authorities in and by the said recited Act of the Twenty second and Twenty third Years of King Charles the Second, given to and vested in the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London, shall be and the same are hereby from henceforth given to and vested in the said Lord Mayor and Two Barons of Court of Aldermen for the time being, for and in respect of all the Exchequer, and singular the Matters and Things in this Act contained, or by this Act enacted, so far as the Case is or shall be applicable; and that in case the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall refuse or neglect to execute any of the respective Powers to them by this Act granted, or to perform all and every such Things relating either to the assenting or levying of the respective Sums aforesaid, as they are by this Act authorized and required to perform, either expressly or by Reference, that then it shall be lawful for any Two or more of the Barons of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, by Warrant or Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to do and perform what the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, might or ought to have done, and by such Warrant either to empower any Person or Persons to make the respective Assessments as aforesaid, or to authorize the respective Officers or Persons appointed to collect such Assessments, to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the Goods of any Person or Persons that shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, in Manner and Form aforesaid. XIX. Provided always, That no Court or Judge Ecclesiastical or Temporal, shall hold Plea of or for any the Sum or Sums of Money due or owing or to be paid by virtue of this Act, or any Part thereof, other than the Persons hereby authorized to have Cognizance thereof; nor shall it be lawful for any Parson, Vicar, Curate or Incumbent, to convent or sue any Person or Persons assessed as aforesaid, and refusing or neglecting to pay the same, in any Court or Courts, or before any Judge or Judges, other than what are authorized and appointed by this Act for the hearing and determining the same in Manner aforesaid.

No Ecclesiastical Court, &c. to hold Plea of or for any Mo. nies payable under this Act.

Public Act.

XX. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed, adjudged and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken Notice of as such, by all Judges, Justices and other Persons whomsoever, without specially pleading the same.

TO THE

PUBLICK GENERAL ACTS, 43° GEO. III.

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Mutiny Act (Army)

(Marines)

Exemption (Military 123, 124

Miscarriage (Maliciously procuring) 58 Rebellion (Suppression of)

27 Revenue, see Loans.

Revenue Officers (Disqualification) *25
Revenue Regulation, see Customs,

Queen Anne's Bounty

20 Receipts (Duty on)

107

117

126

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Excise.

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Sailors (Begging)

61

Newfoundland Fish, see Fish.

Salmon, see Fishery.

Salt (Quebec)

29

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Saumarez Sir James (Annuity to)

37

Schoolmasters

54

Nottingham (Justices)

45

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Seamen, see Militia, Navigation,

Prize-money, Sailors.

Seed Corn; see Indemnity

149 Ship burning, &c.

35. 65

66

Parliament, see Elections, Revenue
Officers.

Passengers to Foreign Parts

Pensions (Annual Duty)

Permits (For Ware-

housed Goods)

Ships, see Convoy, East India Com-
pany, Navigation.

Shooting, &c. maliciously

30 Silk Manufacturers

Foreign

Silver Bullion, see Bullion.

56 Small Notes, see Promissory Notes.
4 Smuggling (Customs)

58

29

133

29. 157

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Snuff Annual Duty

4

· 129. § 3, 4

Societies, see Friendly Societies.

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