CHAP.
XVIII.
Penalty and
Punishment
in Case of
false Swearing
and Forgery.
Public and County
Levies, Parish
Charges, Officers
and Attorneys Fees,
where to be
paid, if in
Tobacco.
Old Notes
not to pass.
Sheriff's
Commission,
6 per Cent
on the Levies.
Thirty per
Poll to be
paid the Clergy,
instead of
40 by the
Act of 1702,
ch. 1.
Sheriff's
Commission
5 per Cent.
Officers, &c.
to deduct 10
per Cent, at
the Foot of
their Lists of
Fees;
or the Debt
forfeited.
Ten per Cent
to be allowed
out of Fees
and Levies,
if paid in
Tobacco. |
Receipts. And if any person shall be convicted of making a false
Oath or
Affirmation, or producing a forge Certificate, in the Case aforesaid,
he shall
forfeit and pay Two Hundred and Forty Pounds of Tobacco for every Hundred
Pounds Weight of Tobacco contained in such Certificate, and so in Proportion
for a less Quantity; and moreover, upon Conviction in any Court of
Record, shall suffer as in Case of wilfiul and corrupt Perjury.
XXI. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Tobacco
due, or to grow due and payable, for Public and County Levies, Parochial
Charges, and all Officers and Attorneys Fees, which shall not be discharged
and paid in Gold and Silver, as by this Act is directed, and the Allowance
to the Clergy hereby settled, shall be paid and discharged in the
following Manner; That is to say, The Public an County Levies, in
any of
the Warehouses within the County on which the same shall be levied; Parochial
Charges, and the Allowance to the Clergy, in some Warehouse within
that Parish, if required; and all Officers and Attorneys Fees, in some
of the
Warehouses within the County where the Person shall live to whom the same
shall be Chargeable: And should there happen to be any County or
Parish
without a Warehouse, that then and in such Case all the aforesaid Public
and
County Levies, Parochial Charges, Officers and Attorneys Fees, or such
Part
thereof as shall not be paid in Gold or Silver, and Clergy's Allowance,
shall
be paid by Inspector or Inspectors Notes, at some Warehouse or Warehouses
in the next adjacent County or Parish, as the Case may require. Provided
always, That no Transfer Notes
of the preceding Year shall pass in any such
Payment.
XXII. And be
it Enacted, That at the Time of laying any Public or
County Levies, there shall be levied for the Sheriff that is to collect
and pay
the same, Six Pounds per Centum, and no more; which the said
Sheriff is
hereby impowered to retain in his own Hands.
XXIII. And be
it further Enacted, That during the Continuance of this
Act, the County Courts shall levy on the taxable Inhabitants of the respective
Parishes, or Part of Parishes, within their Counties, no more than
Thirty
Pounds of Tobacco per Poll, instead of Forty Pounds of Tobacco per Poll
by a former Act directed; notwithstanding any Thing in the said former
Act
contained: And that the Clergy shall be paid by Inspector or Inspectors
Notes
in their respective Parishes, by the several and respective Sheriffs if
any Inspecting
Warehouse be in the parish, otherwise at the next adjacent Inspecting
Warehouse or Warehouses to the said Parish, where such his Parishioners
have their Tobacco inspected; for which Payment the Sheriff shall retain
in
his own Hands Five per Centum, and no more.
XXIV. And be
it further Enacted, That the several Officers and Attorneys
of this Province, at the Time of sending their several Lists and Accounts
to
the Sheriffs of the several Counties for Collection, shall and are
hereby obliged
to make, at the Foot of each Account they shall so send for Collection,
in Case the same by paid in Tobacco, a Deduction of Ten per Centum for
Conveniency; and that any Officer and Attorney who shall neglect or omit
to make such Deduction as aforesaid, he or they shall forfeit every such
Debt,
to the party or Parties from whom the same shall be due and owing; any
Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
XXV. And be it
further Enacted, That out of every Hundred Pounds of
Tobacco paid in Discharge of all Officers and Attorneys Fees, and the Public
and County Levies, when paid in Tobacco, and so proportionably for a greater
or lesser Quantity, there shall be made an Allowance or Abatement to the
Payer of Ten Pounds of Tobacco per Centum, during the Continuance
of
this Act. |