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 A. D.I 670. Anno vicefimo fecund o Scterdo Card LI II. C. 18, 19. 367 C A P. XVIIL (12.) An Ad for the better Regulating of Workhoufes for fetting the Poor on Work. FOR the more effeftual putting in Execution of an AS: of Parliament made in the fourteenth Year of 15 &i4Car. i. J your Majefty's Reign, intituled, An ASi for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdim; and to the '^^ '^- I End that the Poor of the feveral Parifhes within the City and Liberties of TFeftminJler, and other Parifhes Wthin tht CoMntY of Middlefex, mentioned within the Weekly Bill of Mortality, may for the future be duly provided for, according to the Intent and Meaning of the laid Aft, May it pleafe your moft Excellent ^, ^^ ^ ,_ Majefty that it may be enadtcd ; (2) And be it enadled by the King's moft Excellent Majcfty, by and with to whom'r'hc the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament Money, whe™ affembled, and by the Authority of the fame. That all Monies afTeffed, or ordered to be afleffed, upon any colicflcJ, fliall ,1 Perfon, in Purfuance of the faid A£t, fince the firft Day of March in the Year of our Lord one thoufand ^<= P^"*- i fix hundred fixty and five, fliall be collefted and paid in to the Treafurers of the refpcftive Corporations, by or before the nine and twentieth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred fe- venty and one ; and all Monies already colledled by Authority of the fjiid A£l, Ihall be paid in to the faid | Treafurers, by or before the firft Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix hundred feventy S and one: (3) And that the Officers of the faid Corporations ereiSted and conftituted in Purfuance of the faid Ait, and their Treafurers, (hall make and give Quarterly Accounts to the Juftices of Peace, v/ho are To whom to • ' hereby required to demand and call for the faid Accounts, and are not to raife any more Monies upon any Accuun. j new Certificates whatfoever, until there be a juft Account given to, and allowed by, the Juflices of the ! Peace aforefaid, according to the true Intent and Meaning of the faid former and this prefent Aft. j ' II. And whereas fome Accounts have been made by the former Governors, of Part of the Monies raifed 1 ' by the Aft aforefaid, and fome of them ftand engaged for Payment of certain Sums of Money, which were : ' borrowed and expended in Purfuance of the faid former Aft :' Be it further enafted, That all fuch Ac- counts which fliall appear to the faid Juftices (not having been Governors of the faid Corporations) to have been made according to the Aft aforefaid, fliall be and are hereby ratified and confirmed; and that fuch.. j Monies as have not been accounted for as aforefaid, fliall be accounted for according as in the faid Aft is. 1 provided. I III. And that all Monies lent, and all fuch Debts as ^y of them, or any of the Members of the -faid Monies lent - ■ I Corporations aforefaid, ftand engaged for, and have been contrafted for the Ufes exprefTed in the faid Aft, fliall be paid, ■. j fliall upon Order from the Juftices aforefaid (afcertaining the fame) be difcharged and fatisfied by the re- - ; fpeftive Treafurer or Treaiurers for the Time being, and fliall from Time to Time be allowed in their. ; f refiieftive Accounts. I IV. And be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That no Sum or Sums of Money to be levied The Tax rot to-. ! upon the Inhabitants of any of the faid refpeftive Parifhes, according to the faid former or this prefent Aft, exceed one , Ihall in any one Year exceed one fourth Part of the Afleflment to the Poor for that Year, laid on any of the Fourth of the ', Pariflies and Liberties aforefaid : Which faid Sum_ fhall be paid by the refpeftive Inhabitants of the faid ^°°^^ AfleQ- ■ ; P.ariflies, at two feveral Payments, to the Treafurer or Treafurers for the faid Corporations (that is to fay) vhentobepaid, at the Feaft of St. ikf/cAW the Archangel, and the Annunciation of the Blefled Virgin Mary, or within , fourteen Days after either of the faid Feafts as aforefaid. V. And be it alfo enafted. That no Afl^eflhient fliall be laid or made on any of the Pariflies aforefaid, when the AT-. ' after the nine and twentieth Day of September which fliall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand fix feiimems to be ; hundred feventy and five ; any Thin^ in the faid former or this prefent Aft to the contrary in any wife laid, notwithftanding. . _ _ ! VI. Provided always, That nothing herein contained fliall in any Sort extend to the Superfeding, Alter- a Saving for ' ing or Vacating any of the Powers given by the faid former Aft, to the Lord Mayor and Governors London and ; for the Corporation within the City of London, or the Parifli of St. Margarefs Wcjiminjier, but that the St. Margaret's -. fame and all the other Claufes and Articles in the faid former Aft fliall to all Intents and Purpofes be fullv 'w*'*'"'"'*"- executed and obferved within the City of London, and Parifli of St. Margarefs TFe/iminJier, as if this Aft ^'^'^^J/^'J^" had not been made ; any Thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithftanding. pTor'T&'Ti^. i &M.C. 11. 8 £? 9 f*''. 3. f. 30. 9 fe? 10 ?^. 3. (. II. 12 Ann. fiat. 1, c. 1%. 5 Geo, i, c. 8- 9 fJfo. I. c. 7. 2 Cm. 2. c. aS. -i, Geo. '2., c. 21^, ! i7Gm. z. c. 3, 37 £? 38. a«ii 51 G«, a. f, II. ; CAP. XIX. (15.) I An Aft to prevent Frauds in the Buying and Selling of Cattle in Sm'iihfield, and elfewhere. No Jobber or i & 3 Ed. 6. " . ] Broker, JsV. to buy any Cattle, except Swine or Calves, within fourfcore Miles of Zff«<^o«. Forfeiture. <:■ '5- In Part repealed by 25 Car. z. c. 4. fee i; Ann. c. 34. £5' 7 Ann. c. 6. One Butcher fliall not fell to ano- ^^^l'il' ' - ther Butcher. Forfeiture. No Drover fliall be licenced by any Juflice of Peace within eighty Miles of ^ jo_ London. Who fhall be licenced Drovers. To be bound with Sureties. The Proof fliall be upon the i jac. i, c 22.... Party offending. No vexatious Information fliall be brought upon this Aft. The Penalty. Juftices of §. s» ; the Peace at their Quarter-Seffions have Power to hear and determine. To make Extrafts. To award Execution. No Ce7~tiorari to be allowed to remove any Information. Fat Cattle bought in Smithficld fliall not be there fold again. Penalty. Cattle there fold, how to be marked. Cuftoms of Foreign ' i bought, and Foreign fold, taken away. Calves under five Weeks old may be killed. The Profecution j to be within fix Months. The Continuance hereof. Farther continued by ii £?■ zW. 3. c. 13. §. 5. for (tvenYezrs from September I'joo. No Compofition to be made. Forfeiture. Continued by 5 Ann, ', f. 34. from 1 Mar. 1707. for feven Years. EXP.. ^ ■ ■ c A p; ]