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 572 C. 21 — 28. Anno vicefirao feptimo Georgii II. A. D. 1754, ' limited for the Sale thereof, whereby Inconvenlencies have arifen:' Therefore for Remcdv thereof, Be it ein£ted by the King's moft Excellent Majelly, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Common-, in this prelent Parliament aflcmbled, and by the Authority of the fame, Jvifticrs to limit That in all Cafes where any Julfice or J ullices of the Peace is or arc, or fhaU be, required or impowcrcd rants rfo'ftreff ^Y =^"7 ^^ or A£ls (,f Parliament now in Force, or hereafter to be made, to iflue a Warrant of Diftrefs for tile Time for' ' the levying of any Penalty inflicted, or any Sum of Money directed to be paid, by or in confequence of SLiie nf the fuch Aft or Aifts, it fhall and may be lawful for the Juftice or Jurticcs granting fuch Warrant, therein to Diibefs, order and diredi; the Goods and Chattels fo to be diftrained, to be fold and difpofcd of, within a certain Time not kfs thnn 4, (q be limited in (uch Warrant, fo as fuch Time be not le;s than four Days, nor more than eight Days, g'-'p™"'"- '''^" unlefs the Pcn:lty or Sum of Money for which fuch Diilrefs {hall be made, together with the reafonable ^^^' Charges of taking and keeping fuch Diftr^fs, be fooner paid. Officer to deduft JJ_ And be it luriher cnaclcd. That the Officer making fuch Diilrefs, fhall and is hereby impowered to theCiidre^of Jgcjuf^ thg rcafonable Charges of taking, keeping, and felling fuch Diftrefs, out of the Money arifing by _^eeping an e - ^.^^^^ g^^j^ _ ^^^^ ^j_^^ Overplus (if any) after fuch Charges, and alfo the faid henalty or Sum of Money Ihall Overplus to be be fully fatisned and paid, ihall be returned on Demand to the Owner of the Goods and Chattels fo dif- retuincd. trained; and the Officer executing fuch Warrant, if required, fhall fhev/ the fame to the Perfon whofe Goods and Chattels are dil'crained, and fhall fufFer a Copy thereof to be taken. Provifions re- jjj_ Provided alvvrays. That nothing herein contained Ihall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to alter or in' "f-^svV'il'^" repeal any of the Provisions or Directions relating to Diftreffes to be made for the Payment of Tythes and i" 34^ ' ^" Church Rates, by the People called fakers, contained in an Acl pafled in the feventh and eighth Years of his late Majefty ICmg TFilliamih^ Third, intituled. An A£i that the Jok-mn Affirmation and Declaration of the People <fi//tY/ Qiiakers flail he acupted injleacl of an Oath^ in -the iftial Fonn ; or in one other Aft pafled in the not.'u^ea. "' *"' '^^^ '^^2 °^ ^^^ ^'"'^ Majefty King George the Firft, intituhd, An Ail for making perpetual an Aci of the . five7ith and eighth Tears of the Reign of his late Majejiy King WyWi-im the Third, intitvled. An Aft t;hat the folemn Affirmation and Declaration of the People cixileA }^iakers fhall be accepted inftead of an Oath in . ^ the ufual Form ; and for explaining and enforcing the Jaid Ait in relation to the Pay?nent of Tythes and Church tk"}e'e"fartb"r' ^"^'■'^ j and for appointing the Form of an Affirmation to be taken by the faid People called Quakers, infiead of the iGco.'-i.c f Oath of Abjuration. ^ ' • CAP. XXI. An Aft to continue and render more effeftual an Aft pafled in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of his pre- fent Majelfy, for repairing the Road between Hockcliffe in the County oi Bedford, and Stoncy Stratford in the. Qoiwit-Y ni BucFmghani. PR. CAP. XXII. An Aft for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Aft of Parliament paiTed in the eleventh Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing the Road leading from the Trent Bridge, in the County of the Town of Nottingham, through Cofiock, otherwile Cortlingjhck Lane, to the BVidges commonly knovifn by the Name of 6Vw SnV;^«, in the County of Leicejler ; and for making the faid Aft more effeftual. PR. CAP. XXIII. An Aft for repairing and widening the Road from xhtCity oi Peterborough, thvovgh Oiifidle and TJirapfion, to JVelUrigboroitgh in the County of Northampton. PR. CAP. XXIV. An Aft for amending, widening, and keeping in repair the Road leading from Union Point, near the Town of Uckfidd in the County of Suffix, to Langney Bridge in the Parifh of iVefiham in the faid County. P R. CAP. XXV. An Aft for the better enlightening and cleanfmg the open Places, Squares, Streets, Lanes, Alleys, P;i{ihgcs, and Courts, within the Parifh of Saint Luke in the County of Middlefcx; and regulating the Nigntly Watch and Bedels ; and for repairing the Highways within the faid Parifli. P R. CAP. XXVI. An Aft for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Aft made in the ninth Year of his prefent Ma- , jefty's Reign, intituled. An Aci for repairing and z'jidening the Road leading from Saint Dunftan's Crofs, martheQityofC?inic:hx-Y, to the JFater fide at Wht&.:iht in the County cf iienU PR. CAP. XXVII. An Aft to explain, amend, and render more efFvftual an Aft- pafled in the twenty-fixth Year of the Reign of his prefent Pvlajefty, intituled, An ASl for repairing feveral Roads leading into the Ci.'y a/"Glafgow. PR. C A P, XXVIIL An Aft for explaining, amending, and rendering more effeftual an Aft made in the twenty-fifth Year of his prefent Majel^'^y's Reign, For repairing and vjidening the Road leading from Market Harborough in the, Co?/«/j' £)/"Leicefter, i'A/-«/i'^Z' Defborougii, Rowel, Kettering, Barton Soagrave, rt,7^Thrapflon, intheCcunty <?/■ Northampton ; and through Bythorne, Spaldwick, a?id liUington, io the Pound in the Pwifi »/"Bramp- ' ton, in the County of Huntingdon. P Pv.