Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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28th October 1789 - 5th December 1795

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May 1795

every High Constable in the said County is hereby required at or before the
next General or 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
of Joseph Burchell< no role > Gentleman residing in Lambs Conduit Street who is
Treasurer of this County he having 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 the payment of such Sums as shall be
ordered to be paid by the Justices of the Peace for this County in their General
or Quarter Session. And in case the said Churchwardens Chapelwardens and
Overseers of the poor of any Town Parish and 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 to The
High Constable of the Hundred Division or District in which such Town
Parish and Place So assessed doth lie he is by the said Act of Parliament
empowered and is hereby required to levy the same by Distress and Sale of
the Goods and Chattels of such Churchwardens Chapelwardens 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 Town Parish or Place rendering
the Overplus (if any there 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 Chapelwardens and Overseers of the poor in the said
County are not to fail of performing the matters and things abovementioned
enjoined them by this Order in pursuance of the said Act of Parliament
under the Penalties mentioned in the said Act.




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