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<p n="202">Anne chapter 23 This Rate is to be collected by the Constables<lb></lb>
or Such other persons as the Session Shall appoint and paid<lb></lb>
over to the high Constable of the Several Divisions quarterly who<lb></lb>
are twice a yeare to account to the Treasurers, But there is no<lb></lb>
penaltys on Collectors or <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ305">high Constables</rs>
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for any default in<lb></lb>
not collecting accounting or paying over the Said moneys in<lb></lb>
their hands, And that the Committee conceive they are Indictable<lb></lb>
and no other way punishable unless the Collectors shall be<lb></lb>
Judged to be within the penalty of fourty Shillings laid on<lb></lb>
Collectors of Bridge Rates by the Act of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo204">1st. Ann chapter</rs>
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18<lb></lb>
Sect 3 to which this Act relates in this clause where the<lb></lb>
Sessions are impowered to raise money for this use by Such ways as<lb></lb>
they may by law for repairing County Bridges, But there<lb></lb>
appeares to the Committee to be Several defects in this Act,<lb></lb>
there being no power given to levy the penaltys by distress or<lb></lb>
otherwise, So no remedy but by Information or Judgment, All<lb></lb>
which the Said Committee certify and Submit to the Judgment<lb></lb>
of this Court, This Court upon reading the Said Report Doth<lb></lb>
agree thereunto, And doth Order that an Indictment or<lb></lb>
Indictments be preferred against the petty Constables of the<lb></lb>
parishes of Acton & <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo205">Ealing</rs>
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in this County for not assessing<lb></lb>
raiseing collecting & levying the moneys assessed by the Said<lb></lb>
Rate upon the Said parishes respectively as their Quota or<lb></lb>
proportion of the moneys directed and intended to be raised<lb></lb>
by vertue of the aforesaid Rate to defray the expences of<lb></lb>
passing & releiving of Vagrants and also against other<lb></lb>
parishes who are in arreare upon the Said Rate, And that<lb></lb>
Such Indictment or Indictments be effectually prosecuted in<lb></lb>
order to recover the Said arreares But the Committee of his<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ306">Maties Justices of the peace</rs>
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of this County (appointed by<lb></lb>
Order of Court to take the accounts of the Treasurers of<lb></lb>
this County) are hereby authorized first to Summon<lb></lb>
before them if they Shall think proper the Officers of<lb></lb>
Such parishes before them who are Soe in arreare before<lb></lb>
any Such Indictment or Indictments be preferred And<lb></lb>
this Court doth further Order that the expences of the Said<lb></lb>
prosecutions Shall be born & paid out of the moneys<lb></lb>
raised by vertue of the aforesaid Rate.</p>
<p n="203">By Adjornmt. on Thursday the <rs type="date" id="LMSMGO55601_date34">16th. day of January 1734</rs>
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<p n="204"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Order of referrence to the<lb></lb>
Comittee of accounts to<lb></lb>
consider of a proper method<lb></lb>
to be taken for bringing<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n204-1">Henry Barker</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n204-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ307">Esqr</rs>
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. <rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ308">Treasurer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo206">the Bridge</rs>
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money to<lb></lb>
account Etc.}</note>
Whereas <rs type="persName" id="LMSMGO55601_n204-2">Henry Barker</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMGO55601_n204-2" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMGO55601_occ309">Esqr</rs>
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. one of his Maties Justices of the<lb></lb>
peace of this County and Treasurer of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO55601_geo207">the Bridge</rs>
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money was<lb></lb>
by an Order made at the last General Sessions of the peace<lb></lb>
holden for this County by adjornment on Thursday the fifth<lb></lb>
day of December last directed to produce before this Court on<lb></lb>
the first day of this present Quarter Sessions (to witt)</p>
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