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 A. D, 1763^ Anno quarto Georgii III. C. 2. 87 Britain') to the common Gaol, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize, until Payment be made of the Money affeffed, and the Charges for bringing in the fame be paid, and no longer : And the feveral and re- Tenants to pay fpective Tenant and Tenants of all Houfes, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments in England, Wales, or the Tax, Berwick upon Tweed, which (hall be rated by virtue of this Act, are hereby required and authorized to pay fuch Sum or Sums of Money as fliall be rated upon fuch Houfes, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and to deduct out of the Rent ib much of the faid Rate, as in refpect of the faid Rents of any fuch Houfes, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, the Landlord fhould and ought to pay and bear : And the faid and deduft: (b Landlords, both mediate and immediate, according to their refpective Interefts, are hereby required to allow m"'hom of the fuch Deductions and Payments upon Receipt of the Refidue of the Rents. encs " XVI. And be it enacted and declared, That every Tenant, paying the faid Affeffment or Affeffments laft Tenants dif- mentioned, fnall be acquitted and difcharged of fo much Money as the faid Affeffment or Affeffments fhall charged for what amount unto, as if the fame had actually been paid unto fuch Perfon or Perfons, to whom his Rent fhall cy ° pay ' have been due and payable : And if any Difference fhall arife between Landlord and Tenant, or any other, Comrniffionersto concerning the faid .Rates in England, Wales, or Berwick upon Tweed, the faid feveral Commiffioners, or any j" et| ; le Differences two or more of them, in their feveral Divifions, fliall have, and they have hereby Power to fettle the fame, ^^ Tenant, as they fhall think fit; and in cafe the Proportions fet by this or any former Act upon all and every the refpective Counties, Ridings, Cities, Towns and Places in England, Wales, and Berwick upon Tweed, fhall Commiffioners to- not be fully affeffed, levied and paid, according to the true Meaning thereof; or if any of the faid AffefT- «ufe all Defi- ments fhall be rated or impofed upon any Perfon not being of Ability to pay the fame, or upon any empty aS-d^n^ra'ade or void Houfe or Land, where the fame cannot be collected or levied, or that through any Wilfulnefs, * l£ ' a Neglect, Miftake or Accident, the faid Affeffment charged on each County, Riding, City, Town or Place, as aforefaid, by virtue of this or any former Act, happens not tc be paid to the Receiver General, his Deputy or Deputies, as in this or any former AcT: is directed ; that then, and in all and every fuch Cafe and Cafes, the feveral and refpective Commiffioners, Affeffors and Collectors aforefaid, and every of them refpectively, are hereby authorized and required to affefs and re-affefs, or caufe to be affeffed or re-affeffed, levied and paid, all and every fuch Sum and Sums of Money, upon the refpective Divifions or Hundreds wherein fuch Deficiency fhall happen, or Parifhes therein, as to the faid Commiffioners, or fuch Number of them, as by this Act are authorized to caufe the faid firft Affeffment hereby required to be made, fhall feem moft agreeable to Equity and Juftice ; the faid new Affeffment to be made, collected and paid in fuch. Manner, and by fuch Means, as in this Act for other Affeffments is declared and directed. XVII. And be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Affeffor or Col- Affeflbr refuffng lector, or other Perfon or Perfons, fhall wilfully neglect or refufe to perform his or their Duty in the due toferve, to'for- and fpeedy Execution of this prefent Act, or fhall be guilty of any Fraud or Abufe in executing the fame, felt > not e «eed. the faid refpective Commiffioners, or any three or more of them, have hereby Power to impoie on fuch. ing +0 * Perfon or Perfons, fo neglecting or refilling his or their Duties, or being guilty of fuch Fraud or Abufe, fuch Fine or Fines as by them fhall be thought fit, fo the fame exceed not the Sum of forty Pounds ; which faid Fines fhall not be taken off or difcharged, but by the Confent of the Majority of the Commiffioners Fine not to be who impofed the fame, but fhall be levied by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the faid Commiffioners, ^charged but by or any two or more of them, by Diftrefs and Sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offenders, and in de- w °™^^foj r - t .. fault of Goods and Chattels, the Offender (not being a Peer or Peerefs, as aforefaid) to be committed by an a | e „; ed jt * Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the faid Commiffioners, or any two or more of them, to Prifon, Diftrers orim- there to remain till Payment of the faid Fine ; and all Fines to be impofed by virtue of this Act in Eng- pnfonment, and land, Wales, and Berwick upon Tweed, fhall be paid to the Receivers General, and by them into the Receipt p j"' d mtotneEx - of his Majefty's Exchequer; and fhall be inferted in the Duplicates in Parchment fairly written, to be fated Tn the Du- tranfmitted to the Office of the King's Remembrancer as aforefaid, that the fame may be thereby known, piicates. and charged in Account. XVIII. And be it further enacted and declared, That if any Collector or Collectors, that fliall be, by Collectors de- virtue of this Act, appointed for the Receipt of any Sum or Sums of Money thereby to be affeffed in Eng- Ca ' n m theMo- land, Wales, oxBerwick upon Tweed, fhall refufe or neglect to pay any Sum or Sums of Money, which fhall fa^ v f ' d to th e ei y PJ1 * be by him or them received, as aforefaid, and to pay the fame as in this Act is directed, or fhall detain in date's feizTi and his or their Hands any Money received by him or them, or any of them, and not pay the fame, as by this fuJd, &c. Act is directed; the faid Commiffioners of each County, City, Riding or Town refpeftively, or any two or more of them, in their refpective Divifions, are hereby authorized and impowered to imprifon the Per- fon, and feize and fecure the Eftate, as well Freehold as Copyhold, and all other Eftate, both Real and Perfonal, of fuch Collector, to him belonging, or which fhall defcend or come into the Hands or Pofftffion of his Heirs, Executors or Adminiftrators, wherefoever the fame can be difcovered or found ; and the faid Commiffioners, who fhall fo feize or fecure the Eftate of any Collector or Collectors, fr ail be and are hereby impowered to appoint a Time for a General Meeting of the faid Commiffioners for fuch County, Riding, City, Town or Place, and there to caufe publick Notice to be given of the Place where fitch Meeting fhall be appointed, fix Days at leaft before fuch General Meeting ; and the Commiffioners prefent at fuch Ge- neral Meeting, or the major Part of them, in cafe the Monies detained by any fuch Collector or Collectors be not paid and fatisfied as it ought to be, according to the Directions of this Act, fhall be and are hereby impowered and required to fell and difpofe of all fuch Eftates, which fhall be, for the Caufe aforefaid, feized. and fecured, or any Part of them, to fatisfy and pav into the Hands of the Receiver General, or his Deputy,, for fuch County, Riding or Place, the Sum which 'fhall be detained in the Hands of fuch Collector or Col- lectors, their Heirs, Executors or Adminiftrators reflectively. XIX. And it is hereby further enacted and declared, That at the Expiration of the- refpective Times in this Ad prefenbed for the full Payment of the find quarterly Affeffments in England^ Wales and Bcrwick 4 upon.