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An Abridgement of the Laws in Force and Use in Her Majesty's Plantations; 1704
Volume 193, Page 34   View pdf image (33K)
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34            An Abridgment of the Laws of

    V.  An. 11. W. 3. 1699. p. 83.  No Sheriff, Gaoler, Clerk,
or Cryer shall charge their County or the Publick with
any Fees for any Criminals committed to their Charge,
having sufficient Estate in this Province to pay the same,
or being capable to pay by Servitude; but such Criminals
being discharged by Course of Law, shall pay their
own Fees, either out of their Estate, or by Servitude.
    VI.  This Act shall not extend to Malefactors that are
Executed, or such as are Banished, having no Estate
here, nor to Servant Criminals, for whom the County
shall pay the Fees, due to the Sheriff, Gaoler, &c.
    VII.  All Officers Fees due from Criminal Servants
shall be paid by the County where the Fact was committed,
to be satisfied unto the Commissioners of such
County, by such Servants, after their time of Servitude
to their Master is expired.
    VIII.  The Master or Mistress of such Servants shall at
the expiration of their Servants time, deliver up such
Servants to the Justices, for the use of the County, under
penalty of paying themselves the Fees paid by the
County, as aforesaid.
    IX.  An. 11. W. 3. 1699. p. 104.  No Officer or Officers,
their Minister, Servants, or Deputies, shall take
any other Fees than by this Act limitted to the several
Offices therein mentioned, viz.  The Chancellour, or
Keeper of the Great Seal; the Commissary General, or
Chief Judge in Testamentary Causes; the Secretary;
the Surveyor General and his Deputies; the Sheriff;
the Coroner; Cryer of the Provincial Court; Clerk of
the Council, Clerk of the High Court, Clerk of the
County Courts; Cryer of the County Courts.  All
whose Fees are particularly and at large set down in the
said Act.  For which see the Act.
    X.  If any person refuse to pay the Fees by this Act allowed,
the foresaid Officers shall and may recover the
same by way of Execution against the Goods, Tobacco
or Chattels of the person refusing.  And if such person
hath no Tobacco, and shall refuse to discover sufficient
Goods to be taken lawfully, such persons Body may be
taken in Execution.
    XI.  No Officer in this Act mentioned, shall Levy
any Fees in this Act limited, without delivering a true
and just account of the Fees by him demanded under his
hand 30 days at least before Execution.

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