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