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 V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the twenty fifth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy three, no person or persons shall be deemed, adjudged or taken, to acquire or gain any settlement in any parish or place, for or by virture of any purchase of any estate or interest in such parish or place, whereof the consideration for such purchase shall not smount to the sum of thirty punds, bona fide paid, for any longer or further time than such person or persons shall inhaibt in such estate, and shall then be liable to be removed to such parish or place, where such person or persons were last legally setlled, before the said purchase and inhabitancy therin.

VI. And be it further enacted by the authorty aforesaid, That no person or persons whatsoever, who from and after the twnty fifth day of March in the year of or Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty three, shall be taxed rated or assessed to the scavanger or repairs of the highway, and shall duly pay the same, shall be deemed or taken to have any legal settlement in any city, parish, town or hamlet, for or by reason of his, her or thier paying such scavenger's rate or repairs of the highway as aforesaid; any law to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

VII. And whereas their was a clause in the statute made in the eighth and ninth years of his late majesty King William the Third, intitled, An Act for the supplying some defects in the law for the relief of the poor of this kingodm, wherby it was enacted, That after the first day of May one thousand six hundred ninety seven, all appeals against any order for the removing of any poor persons, should be heard at the quater-sessions of the county or division wherein the parish or place, from whence such person should be removed, doth lie, and not elsewhere, except the liberty of Saint Albans, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the peace, within the liberty of the borough of Saint Peter and hundred of Nassaborough in the county of Northampton, to hear and determine all appeals to them made, against any order made for removal of any poor person, in thier quarter-sessions, as they might have done before the making of the said last mentioned act; any thing therein or in this present act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

VIII. And whereas several disputes and controversies have arisen and been concerning the time of notice to be given of appeals from orders of removals of poor persons, to prevent the same, as much may be for the future, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the said twenty fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and twenty three, no appeal or appeal from any order or orders of removal of any poor person or persons whatsoever from any parish or place to another, shall be proceeded upon in any court or quarter-sessions, unless reasonable notice be given by the church wardens or overseers of the poor of such parish or place, who shall make such appeal, unto the church-wardens or overseers of the poor of such parish or place, from which such poor person or persons, shall be removed, the reasonableness of which notice shall be determined by the justices of the peace at the quarter-sessions, to which the appeal is made; and if it shall appear to them that reasonable time of notice was not given, then they shall adjourn the said apperance to the next quarter-sessions, and then and there finally hear and determine the same.

IX. And for preventing vexatious removals, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the twenty foruth day in June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty three, if the justices of the peace shall, at thier quarter sessions, upon an appeal before them there had concerning the settlement of any poor person, determine in favour of the appellant, that such poor person or persons was or were unduly removed, that then the said justices shall, at the same quarter-sessions, order and award to such appellant so much mony, as ahll appear to the said justices to have been reasonably paid by the parish,or other place, on whose behalf such appeal was made for ot towards the relief of cuh poor person or persons, between the time of such undue removal, and the determination of such appeal; the said money so awarded to be recovered in the same manner, as costs and charges upon an appeal are prescribed to be recovered by the said statute maid in the ninth year of his late majesty King William the Third intituled An Act for supplying some defects in the laws for the relief of the poor of this Kingdom

C A P. VIII. "An Act: for continuing forrie "Inlaws, and reviving others therein mentioned, for exempting Apo- thecaries from ferving Parifh and Ward -Offices, and upon Juries; and relating to Jurors; and to the Payment of Seamens Wages, -and the Prefervation of Naval Stores, and Stores of War; and concerning the Militia and Trophy-Money ; and againft clandeftine running of uncuitomed Goods, and for more effectual preventing Frauds relating to the Cuftoms, and Frauds in mixing Silk with Stuffs to be exported. 1 I- TI J PIE R E A S the Laws herein after mentioned (which have by Experience been found ufeful VV an d beneficial) are near expiring or expired;' May it therefore pleafe your Majefty, that it may be enacted ; And be it enacted by the King's molt Excellent Majefty, 'by-and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual arid Temporal, .and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and 6 & 7 W. 3. by the Authority of the fame, That an Act made in the fixth and feventh Years of the Reign of his late s. 4- ' Majefty King. William the Third, intituled, M Ad. for exempting Apothecaries frmn, ferving the Offices oj Conjiable, Scavenger, and other Par if and Ward Offices, and from ferving upon Juries, which Act by fufc- fequent