Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th February 1734 - 14th April 1743

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such Parish or Place to pay such Money so Rated &
Assessed thereupon in the said Rate unto such High
Constable within the Space of Thirty Day after Demand
thereof so made in Writing to be given to the said Church
wardens Chappellwardens or Overseers of the Poor or any of
them And every High Constable in the said County is
hereby required at or before the next General Quarter
Session of the Peace for this County after he shall have
received such Sum or Sums of Money to pay the Same into
the Hands ofof John Higgs< no role > of the Inner Temple London
Gent. residing in Southampton Buildings in the said County
of Middx who is the Treasurer of this County he having
formerly given Security by Bond to be accountable for the
Several Sums of Money which shall be paid to him in
pursuance of the said Act of Parliament and for his
Payment of such Money as shall be Ordered to be paid by
the Justices of the Peace for this County in their General
or Quarter Sessions And in Case the Churchwardens
Chappellwardens and Overseers of the Poor of any Town
Parish or Place abovementioned or any of them shall
neglect or refuse to pay the Sum of Money assessed thereupon
in the said Rate within thirty Days after Demand made as
aforesaid the High Constable of the Hundred Division or
District in which such Town Parish or Place so assessed doth
lye is by the said Act of Parliament empowered and he is
hereby required to levy the Same by Distress and Sale of the
Goods and Chattells of such Churchwardens Chappellwardens
or Overseers of the Poor or any of them so refusing or
neglecting to pay the Same as aforesaid by Warrant under
the Hands and Seals of two or more Justices of the Peace
of the said County residing in or near such Parish or Place
rendring the Overplus if any there shall be after
Deducting the Money assessed and the Charges of the
Distress and Sale to the Owner or Owners thereof And
the High Constables Churchwardens Chappellwardens &
Overseers of the Poor in the said County are not to fail of
performing the Matters and things above mentioned




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