CHAP.
VII.
and the respective
Sums
of Money or
Tobacco paid
by each: and
deliver on of
them to the
Court, and
set up the other
at the
Court-House
Door, on the
first Day of
every June
Court.
And shall pay
Public, &c.
Creditors,
Tobacco and
Money, in
Proportion to
the whole.
Sheriffs shall
set up Notes
of a certain
Day in each
Week, on
which they
will attend at
the Court-House
for receiving
the
Levies.
Persons tendering
their
Money Quotas
before
10th April,
(and the Sheriff
refusing,
&c.) shall
have their Election
to pay
either in Tobacco
or Money. |
Allowances, they are, or ought, to receive in Tobacco, and what
Proportion in Money; Be it Enacted,
by
and with the Authority, Advice and
Consent aforesaid, That the several Sheriffs within this Province,
shall, and are
hereby obliged and required, on the first Day of June Court, yearly
hereafter,
during the Continuance of this Act, to make out Two fair Alphabetical
Lists of the Names and Sirnames of the several Persons within their
respective
Counties, who are charged or chargeable with any Public or County Levies
or Taxes, and shall set down, in different Columns, to each Name in such
List, the Sum of Tobacco with which every such Person is charged, for such
Public and County Levies, and the Sum of Money, if any, which such person
had paid to such Sheriff, in Discharge of that Tobacco, on or by the
Tenth Day of April, then next preceding the Court aforesaid, one
of which
Lists such Sheriff shall deliver to the Justices of the same Court, and
shall,
before them, make Oath, to the best of his Knowledge, to the Truth thereof;
and the other shall, by such Sheriff, be set up at the Court-House Door
of
the same County, or other public Place of such Court-House, for the inspection
of all Persons concerned.
V. And
That
the said Sheriffs, and every of them, shall, and are hereby
obliged to allow, pay, and discount, unto every particular Public or County
Creditor, within his County, such a Sum of Money, in Discharge of his or
her Public or County Allowance, as shall bear the like Proportion to the
whole of such Allowance, as the whole Sum of Money so paid to such Sheriff,
by or before the Tenth Day of April, the next preceding, bears to
the
whole of the Public and County Charge, in that County, payable in Money,
doth amount to.
VI. And whereas
it
hath been the practice of some Sheriffs, when the
Tenth of April, or Time limited for their receiving Money in Discharge
of
the Public and County Levies, drew nigh, to absent themselves from their
Dwelling-Houses, or Places of Abode, whereby many People were prevented
from having the Benefit of the said Act: For Remedy whereof, Be
it Enacted,
by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That the Sheriff
of every County, his Deputies, or Under-Sheriffs, on or before the first
Day
of March yearly, during the Continuance of this Act, shall, and
are hereby
required and obliged to make and set up, public Notes or Advertisements
at
the several Church-Doors, Mill-Doors, and other Public Places of the several
and respective Districts, in the several Counties appointed for such
Deputies
or Under-Sheriffs to act in; and thereby give Notice, That the High-Sheriff,
or Under-Sheriff, shall give constant Attendance at the Court-House,
on a certain Day, to be in the said Notice mentioned, in every Week, except
the Week wherein the March Court for that County is held, from the
Hour
of Nine O'Clock in the Morning, to Five in the Afternoon, from the
said first Day of March, to the Tenth Day of April aforesaid
inclusive, and
for Two Days (except Sunday) next before the Tenth Day of April
aforesaid,
then, and there, to receive from the Inhabitants of such respective
Districts, their several and respective Quotas, or Sums of Money, by them
due and payable for their Public or County Levies, or such parts or Shares
thereof as they shall think fit to pay.
VII. And be it
further Enacted,
That if any of the Inhabitants of such
respective Districts, shall at any Time, on or before the Tenth Day of
April
yearly, tender, or offer to pay their respective Quotas, or Sums of
Money,
or any Part thereof, due for their respective Public or County Levies,
to the
High-Sheriff of the County, or to any of his Deputies, or Under-Sheriffs,
at the Dwelling-House of such High-Sheriff, or at the Court-house, in the
Week wherein March Court is held for that County, or to the Deputy,
or
Under-Sheriff, at the Pace and Time so as aforesaid appointed to receive
the
same, so as such Tender be made in the Presence of one or more credible |
