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High-ways.
' If any person shall fraudulently stop up;
deface, cover, or conceal
' any Hearth or Stove chargeable, and the same be proved by confession
' of the party, or upon Oath, before one Justice of Peace or chief Magistrate,
' or by their view; he shall forfeit the double of the duty to be
' levied as aforesaid, 16 Car. 2. c. 3 |
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Fraud. |
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' If any shall let the Lands, Gardens, Orchards,
or Out houses, formerly
' belonging to a Dwelling-house or Cottage, apart from the same,
' or shall divide any House into several Dwellings, or Let the same to
any
' such persons, who by reason of poverty may pretend to be exempted.
' Then such persons shall pay the Duty as they ought to have done before
' that time. 16 Car. 2. c. 3. |
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' No person inhabiting in a House (not being an
Alms house, exempted
' by the former Act) in any City, Borough, Corporation, Market,
' Town or Parish, which hath or shall have more than two Chimneys,
' Fire-hearths, or Stoves, shall be exempted, 16 Car. 2. cap.
9. before
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Exemption. |
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' If any Question arise, touching the levying of
ny Money by virtue of
' that Act, the same shall be heard and finally determined, by one ore
' more Justices of Peace next adjoyning, or Chief Magistrate of the place,
' respectively upon complaint. 16 Car. 2. c. 3. |
§. 19.
Decision. |
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' Many Questions have arisen upon these Acts; as, |
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' 1. Whether in case of new built Houses,
or other Houses, not formerly
' surveyed and returned, the Duty may be required and levied before any
' Survey and Return made. |
§. 20.
Queries. |
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' 2. Whether Houses new built, standing empty,
and untenanted, ought
' to answer the Duty. |
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' 3. Whether the King for this Duty, may Distrain
upon any other
' Estate of the party that is his Debtor, as he may do at Common Law. |
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' 4. Whether the Duty ought to be paid for
Smiths Forges. |
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' These and divers other Quæries touching
the Execution of these cts,
' have arisen; and there being special Verdicts found in Actions now depending
' in His Majesties Courts, wherein the Cases are made for their
' Resolution, we may hope for a speedy Decision of them. |
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' One thing since the Statute of 16 Car.
2. c. 3. concerns Justices of Peace
' to see to, That such person as come to receive the Duties, being with
' them sufficient Authorities and Deputations for the same; for otherwise
' the County may be gulled of their Money, and may pay, and yet not
' be discharged against the King.
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CHAP. L. V. 26.
High-ways.
' MAxima pricis temporibus Senatus diligentia
suit faciendas sarciendiscque
' viis tam intra quam extra erbem, saith Rosinus, Antiq.
Rom.
' l. 7. p. 300. And the care of them was first
committed to the Censors;
' but they having other imployment, they chose others whom they called
' Quatuor viros viarum curandarum; but the number of their Ways
' increasing, particular Ways had particular Citizens appointed, who
' were called Curatore viarum, which Cæsar Augustus
made an ordinary
' Office. See Eundem, p. 301. to which our Surveyors now exactly
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