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Poor.
any two Justices of the said County of, or near to the said City may
tax the Inhabitants of the County within five miles of the said place
infected,
at such reasonable weekly rates as they think fit, to be levied by
Warrant from any two such Justices of Peace of, or near the said City,
by
Distress and Sale of Goods; and in default thereof, by imprisonment of
the body of the party taxed, as aforesaid. |
Chap. 73. |
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It seemeth hereby, that of necessity there must
be some Justice of Peace of
the City, to joyn with the Head Officers of the City to perfect, impose,
and
raise the Tax in the Act mentioned. |
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If any such infection shall be in any Borough or
Town Corporate where
there are no Justices of Peace, or within a Village or Hamlet, within any
County; then any two Justices of Peace of the same County wherein the
said place infected shall be, may tax the Inhabitants of the said County,
within five miles of the said place infected, at reasonable weekly rates,
as
they shall think fit, for the relief of the said place infected, to be
levied by
Distress and Sale of Goods (upon Warrant of the said Justices of Peace
of
the same County) and in default thereof, by imprisonment aforesaid. |
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All such Taxes made by the Justices of the County,
for the relief of
such City, &c. shall be disposed by the said Justices of the said County,
and as they shall think fit (where there are no Justices of Peace in such
City, &c.) And where there are Justices of Peace, then in such
sort as the
Head-officer and Justice of Peace there, or any two of them shall think
fit. |
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All such Taxes made either in City, &c. or County,
shall by the said Justices
that taxed them (as it seemeth) be certified at their next Quarter
Sessions to be holden within such City, &c. or County, respectively,
there
to be continued, inlarged, extended to other parts of the County, or determined,
as at their Sessions respectively shall be thought fit. |
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' But it seemeth, That if the Justices of Peace
in the City, &c. should
' think fit to continue or inlarge the Tax assessed in the County, they
cannot
' do that without the like order and consent of the Justices of the Peace
' of the County in their Sessions, but ought to certifie the occasions
and necessities
' of the City, &c. they best knowing it; and herein the Justices of
' the County are to credit them, unless they have reason to the contrary. |
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But no Justice of Peace shall do or execute any
thing beforementioned,
within either of the Universities of Cambridge or Oxford,
or within any
Cathedral Church, or the Liberties thereof, or within the Colleges
of Eaton
or Winchester; But the Vice Chancellor if the University, Bishop
and
Dean of such Church, and Provost or Warden of the said Colleges, shall
do
and execute all things abovementioned within their several Precincts. |
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' This Act is in force being continued by 3 Car.
1, 4. & 17 Car. 1. 4.
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§. 1.
What. |
CHAP. LXXIII. V. 40.
Poor.
' POor, are here to be understood (not Vagabond Beggers
and Rogues,
' but those that labour to live, and such as are old and decrepit, unable
' to work, poor Widows, and Fatherless Children, and Tenants driven
' to Poverty; not by Riot, expence or carelesness, but by mischance, &c. |
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Any one of those Justices of Peace, who may appoint
Overseers for
the Poor, may also send to the House of Correction, or Common Gaol, such
as will not imploy themselves in work, being thereunto appointed by the
Overseers, according to this Statute. |
P. 4.
43 Eliz. 2. |
§. 3.
Overseers. |
The Churchwardens and two (or more) Justices of
Peace, whereof
one to be of the Quorum, dwelling in or near the Parish or Division,
&c. |
43 Eliz.
P. 2. |
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