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 232 C. 23, Anno tricefimo primo G e o r g 1 1 II. A. D. 1 7 5 ;;. having in the Execution of their Office. Tabic of Fees. For every Summons, to tl;c Clevk four Pence. For the Service of fuch Suir.nions, to the Beadle four Pence. For calling the PlaintifF or Defendant before the Court, to the Clerks two Pence j and to the Beadle, one Penny. For a Nonfult on the Plaintifr's not appearing, to the Clerks one Shilling. For paying Money into the Court, to the Clerks fix Pence. For every Hearing, to the Clerks three Pence. For a Copy of every Order upon a Hearing, ex Parte^ and of every Judgment of Nonfuit to be ferved, to the Clerks four Pence. For the Service of every fuch Order or Judgment, to the Beadle two Pence. For an Execution, to the Clerks one Shilling. To the Beadle for levying the fame, one Shilling. For acknowledging Satisfa6lion in Full, to the Clerks four Pence. For every Search, to the Clerks two Pence. Tatle of Fees to A Table of which Fees fliall, from time to time, be hung up by the Clerks or Clerk of the fald Court, be hung tp in in fome publick or moft confpicuous Part of the Place where the faid Commiflioners fhall meet for the Pur- the Court. pofes aforefaid, to the End that all Perfons may, at all Times, fee and read the fame. Penalty on Offi. XXI. And be it further enaded by the Authority aforefaid, That if either of the faid Clerks of the faid cers taking other Court, or any future Clerk for the time being, or the faid Beadle for the time being, or either of them. Fees, or miile- f}iall take or demand any greater or other Fee or Fees than are before mentioned, or otherwife mifbehave himfelf or themfelves in the Execution of his or their Office, that then upon Complaint made of the faid Offence or Offences to the faid Coinmiflioners, or any three or more of them, at fome Court to be held within one Month after fuch Offence or Offences fliall be committed (fuch Complaint being duly proved upon the Oath or Oaths of one or more credible Witnefs or Witneffes, againfl him or them fo offending as aforefaid) the faid CommilTioners, or any three or more of them, before whom fuch Complaint fliall be brought, fhall proceed to punifli fuch Perfon or Perfons fo offending as aforefaid, by Fine, not exceeding the Sum of five Pounds, and not lefs than forty Shillings for any one Offence, to be levied (if not paid on Demand) by Diftrefs and Sale of the Goods and Chatties of the Offender or Offenders, by Warrant under, the Hands and Seals of fuch Commiffioners, or any three or more of them, by whom fuch Complaint fliall be heard, rendering to the Owner the Overplus, if any, after the Charges of fuch Diftrefs and Sale arc de- ducted j which faid Fine or Fines of fuch Perfon or Perfons fo offending, when fo paid or levied, fhall be applied to and for the Ufe of the Poor of the Parifti where the Offence fhall have been committed. XXII. And be it further enaifed by the Authority aforefaid. That if it fhall appear to the faid Commif- fioners, or the major Part of them, that fuch Complaint defervcs the Confideration of the whole Number of Commiffioners, then fuch Commiflioners fitting in Court are hereby dire£led and required to caufe the whole Number of Commifhoners to be fummoned to meet, as foon as conveniently may be, by publick Notice to be given in the fcvcral and refpe6tive Parifli Churches, within the faid Weftern Divifion of the; Hundred oi Brixton-, by the Clerk of the Parifh, immediately after Divine Service, on the Sumlay Morning next before fuch Meeting is to be held, fuch Swiday being at leaft three Days before the holding of fuch Meet- ing, which Notice fuch Parifh Clerks are hereby required then to publifh and read, and fuch Commiflioners fo alfemblcd fliall examine into the A'lerits of fuch Complaint •, and if it fhall then appear unto fuch Com- miffioners, or the major Part of them, that fuch Clerks or Clerk, or Beadle, hath been guilty of a grofs Mifoehaviour, or Breach of Duty in his Office, that then it fhall and may be lawful to and for the faid Commiffioncrs, or the major Part of them, to fufpend or remove fuch Clerks or Clerk, or Beadle, from his or their refpedtive Office or Offices. XXI.'I. And for continuing a fufficient Number of fit, able and fubflantial Perfons to be Commiffioners for putting in Execution the Powers in this A6t contained ; Be it further ena£ted by the Authority aforefaid, Ti-rc and Place 7'hat the Commiffioncrs for the time being, fliall meet upon the firfl Day of yuly in every fucceeding Year, of Commiirion- unlefs it fliall happen to be on a Sunday^ and then on the next Day following, in fome convenient Place to be JO jyc. o.ice p^^-,]j(,j^iy notified ten Days before the faid Day of Meeting ; and in Default of fuch Appointment, then at the Place where the Court was laft kept, at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon of the fame Day ; and the faid Commiffioners, or fuch of them as fliall be fo met, fhall proceed by Ballot to elecSt and appoint fo many fit, able and fubflantial Perfons inhabiting within the Weftern Divifion of the faid Hundred of Brixton^ as will fill up the fevcral Vacancies that fhall have happened by the Death of any of the faid Commiffioners^. and alfofhall at the fame 7^ime, and in like Manner, cleiSl and appoint new Commiffioners in the Stead of' fuch of the faid Commiffioners as fhall be removed out of the faid iJivifion, or fiiall refufe or ncgleft to aft for the Space of one whole Year before fuch Day of Ele(5lion ; and all and every fuch Perfon or Perfons fo to be elected a Comniiffioner or Commiffi ncrs, fliall and may, and is and arc hereby impowercd and requi- red, as often as Occafion fliall be, to ait, to all Intents and Purpofes, in as full and ample Manner as the* faid Commiffioners herein named are by this Adt impowrred to do ; and upon every fuch Election, a Lift of»j the whr.l',- Number of the Commiffioners fhall be wrote fair by one of the prcfcnt Clerks, and every future Clerk of the faid Court, and by him be regiftered in the faid Court, and in inch Fiit the Name of each for-' m":r Conimiffioncr fhall ftand in the Order wherein it v/as before placed, and the faid new Conimiflio^iq^ fliall alw.iys be placed and ff and laft in Onlcr in every new Eift. ' XXI V. And whereas the Number of Perfijns herein before nominated and appointed out of each of the ' P'arifhes ccntined in the faid Weftern Divifion of the Hundred oi Brixton, to make up the Ninnber of, ' fi- ty Commiffiaoners, is calculated, as near as may be, to bear a due Proportion with the Extent, Trade,^! ' Wealth and Number of Inhabitants of and in each rclpedlivc Parifh j' Be it enaiSted by the Authonty | aforefaiuj Regulation; in the Proceeding's of Commilfir'p- ers onComplaint of the Mi/beha- viour or pjreach of Duty in tiie Offirers of the Court. til be given of fuch Mectin The fifljn'f up Vacincici of C'rumiiiioiicrt bow to be ob* '
 * '^' n'^^Vv ^."- appf'intcd and fixed upon for that Purpofe by a Majority of the fnid Commiffioners for the time being, and