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<p n="960"> N.B.-By the 27th Eliz. C. 13. S. 5. It is enacted, That if any Inhabitant of any such<lb></lb>
Town, Parish, Village, or Hamlet, shall obstinately refuse and deny to pay the said Tax-<lb></lb>
ation and Assessment, so by the said Constables, Constable, <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50751_occ224">Headboroughs</rs>
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, or Headbo-<lb></lb>
rough taxed and assessed, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Con-<lb></lb>
stables and <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50751_occ225">Headboroughs</rs>
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, and every of them, within their Several Limits and Juris-<lb></lb>
dictions, to distrain all and every Person and Persons so refusing and denying, by his<lb></lb>
and their Goods and Chattels, and the same Distress to sell, and the Money thereof<lb></lb>
coming to retain to the Use aforesaid; and if the Goods or chattels, so distrained and<lb></lb>
sold, shall be of more Value than the said Taxation shall come unto, that then the<lb></lb>
Residue of the said Money, over and above the said Taxation, shall be delivered unto<lb></lb>
the said Person or Persons so distrained.</p>
<p n="961">By the 8th George II. Cap. 16. S. 10. It is enacted, That if any such Officer or<lb></lb>
Officers who are to levy and collect such Taxations and Assessments as aforesaid, shall<lb></lb>
refuse or neglect to levy and collect the same, within such time as shall be limited<lb></lb>
and appointed by the said <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50751_occ226">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for their doing thereof, or shall refuse<lb></lb>
or neglect to pay and deliver over the Sums of Money, so levied and collected, to the<lb></lb>
said Sheriff, and also to the said Justices, in such Manner as the same in the several<lb></lb>
Cases herein before-mentioned, are respectively directed to be paid, within the respec-<lb></lb>
tive Times herein before limited for such Payment thereof, every such Officer shall,<lb></lb>
for every such Refusal or Neglect, forfeit double the Sum appointed to be by him levied<lb></lb>
and collected, as aforesaid.</p>
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