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Poor.
or forbear so to do, they and every of them shall forfeit 3 l,
6 s. 8 d. One
half to the Poor, the other to the Prosecutor. By Action, &c. |
Chap. 73. |
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The Master, or Mistress or Dame, receiving such
Money with such Apprentice,
shall be bound with two Sureties to the Corporation; or the person
having the ordering thereof, conditioned to repay the Money at the end
of
seven years, or three Months after; and of the Apprentice die within one
year after his death; and if the Master, &c. die within seven years,
then
within one year after his death, such Money shall be put out again and
imployed
within three Months after it comes in. And if there be no poor Children
to be put out, then the poorest Children of the Parish adjoyning; and
the poorest Children shall always be made choice of, and none to be above
15
years of age. |
7 Jac. 3. |
§. 18.
Accompt. |
The Persons so intrusted, shall once every year
at Easter, or within a
Month after, give to four, three, or two Justices dwelling in or next
the Town, &c. an accompt of all Moneys so imployed of Securities taken,
and what is in their hands: And at the time of their accompt, or
a Month
after deliver up to such as shall succeed them the Obligations and Money. |
7 Jac. 3. |
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In case of any breach of trust or mis-imployment,
the Lord Chancellor may
grant Commissions, &c. |
7 Jac. 3. |
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Quære, What authority the Justices have
by this Statute, for it seemeth
they have no authority compulsory over the persons accompting, but only
to
take their accompts. And as they said the Money mis-imployed, or
not imployed,
to represent the same to the Lord Chancellor, &c. That Commissions
may issue
as that Statute directs. |
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§. 19.
Refusal to
Accompt
and pay. |
Now if the Churchwardens, or either of them, or
any of the Overseers,
shall refuse to make and yield a true and perfect account to the said
Justices of all such sums of Money, and of all such stock, as aforesaid;
any
two such Justices may commit them to the common Gaol, there to remain
without Bail, till they have made a true accompt, and satisfied and paid
(to the new Overseers) so much of the said sum and stock, as upon the
said account shall be remaining in his (or their) hands, &c.
' And if they
' make a false accompt, they may be bound over to the Assizes, or Sessions,
' and there an Indictment may be preferred against them. |
P. 24. 10. |
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Also, if any of the Churchwardens or Overseers,
shall refuse or deny
to pay and deliver over to the new Overseers, the arrearages (sums
of
Money or Stock) which shall be in their hands, and due and behind upon
their account to be made as aforesaid; any two such Justices of Peace may
make their Warrant to the present or subsequent Churchwardens and
Overseers, or any of them, to levy the same by Distress and Sale of the
offenders Goods, rendring to the parties the overplus; and in defect of
such Distress, any two such Justices of Peace may commit him or them to
the common Gaol, there to remain without Bail, until payment or delivery
of the said sum, arrearages and stock be made. |
P. 2. 4. |
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But if persons assessed die before the same be
collected, without default of
the Overseers, as it hapned by reason of the Sickness in 1638.
A new rate
and assessment is to be made to supply the same. Ord. 27 Aug
14 Car. Lib.
Sess. Pa. Middlesex. |
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If any such Stock shall be in the hands of any the
Poor to work, and
such Poor shall refuse to deliver the same, it seemeth any two such Justices
may make the like Warrant to levy the same by Distress, and in defect
thereof may commit such Offenders, as aforesaid. |
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And as for other the negligences of the Churchwardens
and Overseers
in their Office, or in the execution of the Orders aforesaid, every of |
P. 2. |
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