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[27th June 1817.]

HEREAS by an Act of Parliament paed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His late Majety King George the Second, intituled An Act for the more a effectual ecuring the Payment of Rents, and preventing Frauds by Tenants, it is amongst other Things enacted, that from and after the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thouand even hundred and thirty-eight, if any Tenant holding any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments at a Rack Rent, or where the Rent reerved hould be full Three-fourths of the Yearly Value of the demied Premies, who hould be in Arrear for One Year's Rent, hould deert the demied Premies, and leave the ame uncultivated or unoccupied, o as no ufficient Ditres could be had to countervail the Arrears of Rent, it hould and might be lawful to and for Two or more Jutices of the Peace of the County, Riding, Diviion, or Place (having no Interet in the demied Premies), at the Requet of the Leor or Landlord, Leors or Landlords, or his, her, or their Bailiff or Receiver, to go upon and view the ame, and to affix or caue to be affixed on the mot notorious Part of the Premies Notice in Writing what Day (at the Ditance of Fourteen Days at leat) they would return to take a Second View thereof; and if upon uch Second View the Tenant, or ome Peron on his or her Behalf, hould not appear and pay the Rent in Arrear, or there hould not be ufficient Ditres upon the Premies, then the aid Justices