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THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor.
and in case of refusal or neglect to account or make payment, the said
justices
may cause the bond of the collector failing in his duty to be put in suit,
and
the said justices, on taking bond, shall cause the same to be proved by
the
witnesses thereto, and their clerk shall record the same, with the probate,
and
an attested copy of the said bond and probate from the said record shall
be as good
evidence in law to maintain an action of debt for the breach of the condition
thereof, as if the said bond was actually produced and proved in court,
and on
suit the justices may order a copy of such bond to be filed in the general
court,
and thereupon scire facias shall issue against such collector and
his securities, in
the same manner as by law is directed in the case of bonds to the loan-office,
and
similar proceedings shall be had to compel payment of the money due, with
an
interest of ten per cent. from the day appointed for payment; and
every person
appointed collector shall, before he acts as such, subscribe a declaration
of his belief
in the christian religion, and take and subscribe the oath (or if a quaker,
menonist
or dunker, the affirmation) of fidelity to this state, directed by the
constitution
and form of government, and the oath (or affirmation) prescribed by the
act to punish certain crimes and misdemeanors, and to prevent the growth
of toryism,
unless he had before made the said declaration, and taken the said oaths
or
affirmations. |
1780.
CHAP.
XXVI. |
III. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the
said justices to impose any assessment or rate for the making and finishing
necessary
repairs to the court-house of their county, exceeding one hundred pounds
real
money in any one year; or for making and finishing necessary repairs to
their
county prison, exceeding one hundred and fifty pounds like money in any
one
year; or for the full and complete repair of any one bridge in their county,
exceeding
fifty pounds like money in any one year; or for the erecting and building
of any one new bridge in their county, exceeding two hundred pounds like
money. |
Proviso. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That any person chargeable with any county assessment
may pay and discharge the same in silver or gold, or paper money, at the
same rate
or value he is or may be enabled by law to pay or discharge his public
assessment. |
Persons may
pay in silver,
&c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That if any collector shall proceed to the sale of any
goods or chattels, to enforce the payment of the county charge, he shall
be entitled
to receive the same fees as are or shall, be established by law on the
service of
executions. |
Collector's
fees on executions,
&c. |
VI. And,
to enable the justices of the county courts to settle and assess the expences
of their counties for the year seventeen hundred and eighty, Be
it enacted,
That the justices of the several county courts, or any three or more of
them, be
authorised and required to meet at the place of holding the court for their
county,
on the twentieth day of March, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, to adjust
the
expences of their county for the preceding year in specie as aforesaid,
and to impose
an assessment on all the property in their county sufficient to defray
such
county charge, with an allowance of four per cent. for the collection
thereof, agreeable
to the valuation thereof made in pursuance of the act to raise the supplies
for the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one, passed this present session,
and the
collector of the respective counties, after the twentieth day of April
next, shall
collect such rate in the same manner as the public assessment is by the
said law to
be collected, and shall render account and pay the same to the order of
their respective
county courts, on or before the twentieth day of May next, and in case
of default, such collector shall pay the money then due, with an interest
of ten
per cent. and his bond and securities shall be answerable for payment,
in the same
manner as for the public tax. |
Justices to adjust
the expences
of their
county, &c. |
VII. This act to continue six years, and to
the end of the next session of assembly
which shall happen after the expiration of the said six years. |
Continuance. |
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